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Using Alternative Shells

Any user can change his assigned shell at any time. The reasons for doing this are myriad: The user might be accustomed to Linux and bash, as described earlier, or have a highly customized shell environment from another system that is only in a certain shell’s configuration format (as we’ll discuss shortly). Regardless of the reason, changing a user’s shell is pretty easy.

Changing Your Shell While Logged In

The simplest way to use an alternate shell is simply to run it from within your existing shell. If your default shell is tcsh, and you want to use bash (assuming that bash is available on the system), just type bash to open a new bash environment within your tcsh session, as shown here:

# bash
bash-2.04#

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