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Development Tools Introduction to the Terminal The Command Shell Shortcuts

Posted by Jake Almendarez
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Jake Almendarez
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 4,250 Points

bash and zsh

i have zsh shell on my mac. should i keep it or change to bash? if i should change how do i do that?

1 Answer

Daniel Jong
Daniel Jong
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Daniel Jong
Daniel Jong
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In my opinion, you can keep it as it has a lot of cool features that bash doesn't have, however learning bash is still important nowadays because many machines are still using bash.

Here's a website from Google that teaches how to switch to bash in Mac, hope it helps!

https://www.howtogeek.com/444596/how-to-change-the-default-shell-to-bash-in-macos-catalina/