Some Unix Knowledge

[budncal]

The default, which is what you get in the Terminal, is tcsh. OS X also has csh, zsh, and I believe also bash.

[boinger]

Originally posted by budncal
The default, which is what you get in the Terminal, is tcsh. OS X also has csh, zsh, and I believe also bash.

bash isn't in OSX by default - You have to grab it from the Darwin 1.0 img and copy it into place (usually /usr/bin or sometimes /usr/local/bin).

Though, it SHOULD be there - it is, of course, the "best" shell! (for me, anyway)

--boinger

[ismail]

Hello,
Well, first open Terminal.app Preferences. In the Shell Preferences change /bin/tcsh to /bin/zsh ( I'm using zsh), or the path of the Shell you'd like to use.

That is done, now you need to change the Shell in the users database which resides on NetInfo database.

NetInfo is in the Utilities Directory under Applications.

Start NetInfo, authenticate yourself using the root password, now you can edit NetInfo. Don't mess around, you don't want to play with things you don't know about here.

You'll see a navigation view of the database, scroll down getting to users. Click on users, then on your username. You'll have all your info displayed. Scroll down if you don't see all your info to get to SHELL, now change it to the same thing you changed it in the Terminal.app Preferences. Save changes, Restart NetInfo processes.

You are done.

[andredeb]

Then again... real Unix programmers use emacs ;-)

From within emacs you can navigate around the file
system with lightspeed, start compilations, perform
debugging and that all (almost) without typing in
the commands. The apple developer tools may soon
make emacs extinct but I don't believe till I see....

Emacs is pre-installed on OS-X, full documentation
can be found here:

http://www.gnu.org/manual/emacs/


A "how to get started... now" guide can be found here:

http://www.go-ebusiness.com/emacs_intro.htm