Terminal Preferences and Configuration
As with most Mac OS X GUI tools, a number of things about Terminal can be customized. Because you're probably familiar with configuring GUI apps by now, we'll just hit the highlights and give you an overview of what is configured where.
In Preferences under Terminal, shown in Figure 9.1, you configure the shell to use for interaction in the terminal. Because the default shell from Apple is in bash, it's probably best to keep the default setting, Execute the default login shell using /usr/bin/login, rather than specifying another shell, unless you really want something else. If you do decide to specify another shell, you need to set it, close the Terminal Preferences, and open a new terminal window. In the ...
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