News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Mastering Bash and Terminal. Parent comment

Re:Mastering Bash and Terminal by bitserf on Saturday January 14, 2017 @06:48PM (#13401360)
Or, it could just switch the default shell to Z shell. First thing I do on a new Mac, is chsh -> zsh. Ships with an up to date (enough) version of that.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Mastering Bash and Terminal by ajsalminen on Sunday January 15, 2017 @06:56AM (#13403625)
It could, but "just" switching shells is definitely an inconvenience to your users as well.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Mastering Bash and Terminal by mitchty on Saturday January 14, 2017 @09:34PM (#13401997)
zsh was even the default shell for an OS X release, 10.3 or 4 can't remember at this point.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Mastering Bash and Terminal by em500 on Sunday January 15, 2017 @10:06AM (#13404275)
Nope, before switching to bash in 10.3, tcsh was the OS X default.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Mastering Bash and Terminal by mitchty on Sunday January 15, 2017 @06:54PM (#13407259)
Yep looks like you're right, I could have sworn that zsh was after tcsh then bash from there on out. Went looking in my Mac OS X for unix geeks book and it was right on the transition so bad memory no cookie. I'll punish my brain with beer for its transgressions.
[ Parent | on HN ]