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Changing Default Shell in Mac OS X

Fresh3 days ago
Mar 15, 202643869 views
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Problem

I have noticed two ways to the change default shell in Mac OS X. Open up Terminal preference and set "Shells open with" to "Command". Then type the path to the shell program such as . Another way is to turn on System Preferences and pick "Accounts". Unlock the preference so that you can make a chan…

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/usr/local/bin/zsh

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Fix for: Changing Default Shell in Mac OS X

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The terminal preference only affects the terminal the other way affects all processes that use a shell (e.g. if you ssh into the machine only the latter will have changed the shell) Note that applications launched from the dock/finder etc are not af…

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