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Changing Shell
A Unix shell is a command-line interpreter or shell that provides a traditional user interface for the Unix operating system and for Unix-like systems. Users direct the operation of the computer by entering commands as text for a command line interpreter to execute or by creating text scripts of one or more such commands.
A Unix shell is a command-line interpreter that provides an interface and functionalities for your terminal. The most known and used shell in Linux is bash as it comes installed and activated on most distribution out-of-the-box.
Other shells exist, such as :
- Dash
- Fish
- Zsh
A list of available shells on Solus is in /usr/share/defaults/etc/shells.
If you want to switch from bash to another shell in your terminal you have to use the command chsh to do that (alongside installing the proper package for your shell).
The command is used with sudo rights to change the shell for your user session.
Exemple:
sudo chsh -s /bin/zsh $(whoami)
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