How to change the default shell to bash?

shadkong · 04-09-2005, 11:26 PM

The slackware's default shell is sh, but I want to change it to bash, How?
Thanks!

Namaseit · 04-09-2005, 11:30 PM

Uh, what? Actually it is bash. If you look at your user's shell in /etc/passwd it is set to /bin/bash. That is the default. Actually sh just points to bash anyways. So it doesn't really matter.

Stang_Man · 04-09-2005, 11:34 PM

chsh user /bin/bash

Namaseit · 04-09-2005, 11:45 PM

that works too. But like I said. sh = bash

if you do 'ls -l /bin |grep sh' then you will see it just links to bash.

shadkong · 04-10-2005, 12:41 AM

Namaseit, you are right, /bin/sh is a link to /bin/bash.
Thank you!

jschiwal · 04-10-2005, 09:26 AM

According to the bash 'man page', if bash is invoked by the name sh, it will mimic the startup behavior of the 'sh' shell. You may want to find out how changing the default will effect the startup scripts or environment variables used on your system, before going ahead with a change.

Stang_Man · 04-10-2005, 04:29 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Namaseit
that works too. But like I said. sh = bash

if you do 'ls -l /bin |grep sh' then you will see it just links to bash.

even though it's a symbolic link in Slackware, how is it on other operating systems??

I've been told by numerous people /bin/sh != /bin/bash. One thing I've been told is /bin/sh lacks TAB completion.

Namaseit · 04-10-2005, 05:58 PM

Eh I just did typed in sh on my server and there is tab completion. It's probably just alot of other things maybe.

Stang_Man · 04-10-2005, 07:58 PM

well, obviously if your /bin/sh is linked to /bin/bash

Namaseit · 04-10-2005, 09:39 PM

Well yeah. I thought you were trying to tell me that bash when emulating sh it didn't do tab completion. If in your previous post you just meant that sh and bash are two different things then yes. That is right. Bash is the 'Bourne again shell'. While sh is the "original". There are a ton of other shells. csh, tcsh, ksh, zsh, psh. And about a hundred others.

GATTACA · 04-22-2005, 09:48 PM

Open up a Konsole in KDE.

Go to Settings->Configure Konsole...

Select the "Session" tab

Under "Session" select "Shell".

In the text field marked "Execute" type in: "/bin/bash --login" (without the quotes).

The --login is optional. You can set the color schema in the same window.

HTH.

Namaseit · 04-23-2005, 02:53 PM

Yeah but thats just for konsole. He wanted to know for non-gui. If you're in kde that's great. If you aren't using kde or just have headless server that doesn't help too much.

freakyg · 04-23-2005, 03:49 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Namaseit
Uh, what? Actually it is bash. If you look at your user's shell in /etc/passwd it is set to /bin/bash. That is the default.

this is the default, GUI or not............until root or user changes it.........