Re: default shell

[will trillich <will@serensoft.com>]

On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 10:09:27PM +0200, Leonard Stiles wrote:
> pmcalpin@uoguelph.ca (pkm) writes:
> 
> > hey... how can I set my default shell (when I don't have root
> > access)... I'm being forced to use csh but I want to use bash
> 
> man chsh

if you're gonna be particular, chsh is the way to go (if you
have the privileges).

or you can just run the shell you DO want as a command, even
from a startup file (like ~/.cshrc):

	% bash
	% tcsh
	% ash
	% zsh

then when you're done, you just ^D (eof) out of it, which will
return you to the 'default' original shell.

if you don't wanna have to also log out of your default shell,
you can do something like this:

	% bash && exit

then when you log out of your bash invocation, your csh instance
will exit as well.

check the manpage of your particular shell-of-choice to see how
to invoke it as if it were a 'login' shell (where it processes
different or additional startup/init files to load its
environment)...

-- 
DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #45 from Will Trillich <will@serensoft.com>
:
Troubled by DOS-FORMAT TEXT FILES? There are many ways
to get rid of the extra ^M characters. In VIM, try
	:set ff=unix
before saving the file (":opt" for more info); or, use perl:
	perl -pi.dos -e 's/\cM//g' filename*pattern.txt
("perldoc perlrun" for more info.)

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