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Running Mac OS X Tiger
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Running Mac OS X Tiger

by Jason Deraleau, James Duncan Davidson
December 2005
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
400 pages
11h 33m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Using Other Shells

Essentially, all the shells on the system (sh, bash, ksh, tcsh, and zsh) do the same thing: they take input from you and translate it into commands that are run on the system. However, each shell differs in the specifics of how you interact with it and the special features that it offers. If you’ve never used the Unix shell, you’ll do just fine sticking with the default bash shell. But if you’ve become accustomed to the tcsh shell that was the default on earlier versions of Mac OS X, or if you are an old-hand Unix user who simply prefers another shell, you may want to change the default shell to suit your preferences.

Because a shell is a program like any other, all you have to do to use a different shell temporarily is type its name at the command line. For example, if you want to use the tcsh shell, execute the following:

$ tcsh

The prompt changes to a percent sign (%), which is the default prompt for the tcsh shell, and will be in effect until you exit out of it.

Changing ...

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