Wednesday, 20 April 2016

How to identify available shells on Mac OS X

Guys you may be aware that you can find your current shell in Mac OSX or any Unix machine by typing the following in Terminal.

echo $SHELL
/bin/bash

But to identify the available shells on Mac OS X type the following :

cat /etc/shells
# List of acceptable shells for chpass(1).
# Ftpd will not allow users to connect who are not using
# one of these shells.

/bin/bash
/bin/csh
/bin/ksh
/bin/sh
/bin/tcsh
/bin/zsh

Also, if you ant to change your default shell, type this :

chsh
Changing shell for ironcladzone.

Password for ironcladzone: 

Hope it helps. Cheers!

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