Changing Your Default Shell

Wondering how to change your default shell? I will show you three easy ways to do just that.

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[exapsy]

"i will purposely fail the password test", this sounds so suspicious that at this point I dont think you really know your password.

[billfawcett]

Hi DT, Thanks for your video.
You have made changing the shell seem a simple and straightforward affair, which of course means that when I try it will be a complete cluster f**k! ;-)

[stevesubject]

Thank you very much. I'm completely green to Linux and have 0 previous experience. Currently taking an IT course and Linux and scripting seems to be going straight over my head. Thank you for making this easy to follow and fun to watch.

[mohammadrezajavadi]

I really was struggling to change the shell; thanks a lot man

[StaffyDoo]

Fish + OMF + Fisher + Spacefish theme = ♥

[LNTutorialsNL]

Can you do a video on video editing on GNU+Linux?

[nahnoway]

top tip, you need to log out and back in again to see the changes take effect, in case anyone was as confused as I was over this lol

[mitchelvalentino]

Good topic. Good video. Thanks, DT. 👍

[sharper]

I have only used bash for the last 5 years. Maybe I should try zsh or fish out.

[CryptCrossfre]

Thank you i didn't need to finish the video thank you for the help getting me going where I wanted to go! Thanks man!

[crazybadatoms]

for your convenience:
type chsh
and know the location of your shells
(sudo chsh /bin/<shell name here>)

[foreducation]

this was really helpful, straight to the point and now i am running fish from bash

[RobinGrays]

Aroclinux Awesome Min. Rockssss very nice.

[alfkh]

hey dt, watt would help us really a lot is if u actually changed the shell eg from bash to zsh, logout & login to show us that you've actually changed it by doing a ps command, then changed the shell back.. NOT pretend to change the shell! that doesn't convey a whole lot of confidence. While most of us, including me, have a whole lot of confidence that its really a snap for you, most of us out here in the real world get the message that you're scared to bork your own machine or making a mistake is something un-fix-able!

[macinman]

Hey just watched this video, and wanted to mention that chsh -l doesn't work on macos either, but the cat /etc/shells does, as well as chsh -s path to shell. I haven't tried in FreeBSD, so can't really make comments there currently. My two main physical computers are a 5K iMac, and an older HP tower running Xubuntu mainly acting as a NAS for now.

[aitchpea]

Ooh, how'd you get that powerline lookin' clock and stuff on the RHS of your terminal?

[pavan]

if i type shell commands it is telling command not found can you help me please

[vmisev]

Fedora doesn't have chsh(1) oob???
That distro is strange - every Unix (HP-UX, AIX, Ultrix, OSF/1, *BSD) has it since forever...

[feezankhattak]

How can I style my ubunto shell like your one.

[exapsy]

Have you used tmux as a shell? I didn't really think this was an option.
Could you use Tmux and ZSH at the same time without having to instantiate a tmux server in your zsh shell? I dont get it.