Bash, short for Bourne Again SHell, is a command interpreter for Linux systems. It’s an upgraded version of the Bourne Shell and includes features from the Korn shell and C shell. Bash is a powerful tool that allows users to control their Linux system. It’s essential for system administr...
Change the default shell from bash to tcsh as used by Terminal app in three steps: Launch Terminal.app From the Terminal menu, select preferences In preferences, select “execute this command” and type /bin/tcsh in place of /bin/bash That’s it. Now anytime you open a new terminal it...
If you’ve had your Linux machine for a while, you may notice that your home directory accumulates a bafflingly large array of startup files over time. These are sometimes called dot files because they nearly always start with a dot (.). Many of these are automatically created when you fi...
The real reason Apple chose to switch from Bash to zsh in macOS is really about licensing. Bash is now under the GPL v3 license which is incompatible with some of Apple's open source policies. For the most part, anything you can do in Bash you can also do in zsh. So the change isn...
System security is a major concern. As a sysadmin, as I've stated before, it's your primary concern. Adding users to a system decreases security. Your job is...
When you switch to more enhanced csh's, like tcsh - the best csh clone IMHO - you have a complete ouvre of interpreted specials. My prompt is likeset prompt="$prod%{`tput smul`%}%M:%{`tput rmul;tput dim`%}%/ %h %#%{`tput sgr0`%} " for intelligent terminals (xterm) andset...
This article explains how to change the default shell in Linux. Using this you can set Bash, sh, Zsh, Csh, Fish, etc. as your shell. The article includes instructions for changing the login shell from the command line using chsh, or changing the shell only for a particular terminal appli...
Thus, it’s important to have a solid foundation in whatever shell you choose.There are many different shells available, from Ash to Zsh. They all differ in many ways, and some (such as Csh and Tcsh) vary wildly from the others. Each has its selling points. However, because Bash has ...
./install.csh #add to /etc/sysconfig/iptables before REJECT -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p udp -m udp –dport 3071 -j ACCEPT -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p udp -m udp –dport 5571 -j ACCEPT -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p tcp -m tcp –dport 3071 -j ACCEPT ...
Installation of ZSH is very simple on Ubuntu, so you just need to run the below command, which will install the ZSH shell on your system.