Add an entry on changing shells.
PR: 17862 Suggested by: Mike Kohout <mwkohout@hotmail.com> Submitted by: Eric Ogren <eogren@earthlink.net>
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<chapter id="basics">
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<chapter id="basics">
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$TERM</command> prints whatever your terminal is set to.
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$TERM</command> prints whatever your terminal is set to.
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<command>echo \$TERM</command> prints <envar>$TERM</envar> as
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<command>echo \$TERM</command> prints <envar>$TERM</envar> as
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is.</para>
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<sect2 id="changing-shells">
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<title>Changing your shell</title>
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<para>The easiest way to change your shell is to use the
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<command>chsh</command>. Running <command>chsh</command> will
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place you into the editor that is in your <envar>EDITOR</envar>
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environment variable; if it is not set, you will be placed in
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<command>vi</command>. Change the “Shell:” line
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accordingly.</para>
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<para>You can also give <command>chsh</command> the
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<option>-s</option> option; this will set the shell for you
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without having to enter the editor. For example, if you wanted to
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change your shell to bash, the following should do the
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trick:</para>
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<screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>chsh -s /usr/local/bin/bash</userinput></screen>
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<para>Running <command>chsh</command> with no parameters and editing
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the shell from there would work also.</para>
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<note>
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<para>The shell that you wish to use <emphasis>must</emphasis> be
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present in the <filename>/etc/shells</filename> file. If you
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have installed a shell from the <link linkend="ports">ports
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collection</link>, then this should have been done for you
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already. If you installed the shell by hand, you must do
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this.</para>
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<para>For example, if you installed <command>bash</command> by hand
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and placed it into <filename>/usr/local/bin</filename>, you would
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want to:</para>
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<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>echo "/usr/local/bin/bash" >> /etc/shells</userinput></screen>
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<para>Then rerun <command>chsh</command>.</para>
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</note>
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The FreeBSD Documentation Project
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The FreeBSD Documentation Project
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$FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/handbook/basics/chapter.sgml,v 1.15 2000/03/15 23:01:40 jim Exp $
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$FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/handbook/basics/chapter.sgml,v 1.16 2000/04/06 20:28:27 jim Exp $
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<chapter id="basics">
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<chapter id="basics">
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$TERM</command> prints whatever your terminal is set to.
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$TERM</command> prints whatever your terminal is set to.
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<command>echo \$TERM</command> prints <envar>$TERM</envar> as
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<command>echo \$TERM</command> prints <envar>$TERM</envar> as
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is.</para>
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is.</para>
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<sect2 id="changing-shells">
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<title>Changing your shell</title>
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<para>The easiest way to change your shell is to use the
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<command>chsh</command>. Running <command>chsh</command> will
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place you into the editor that is in your <envar>EDITOR</envar>
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environment variable; if it is not set, you will be placed in
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<command>vi</command>. Change the “Shell:” line
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accordingly.</para>
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<para>You can also give <command>chsh</command> the
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<option>-s</option> option; this will set the shell for you
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without having to enter the editor. For example, if you wanted to
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change your shell to bash, the following should do the
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trick:</para>
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<screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>chsh -s /usr/local/bin/bash</userinput></screen>
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<para>Running <command>chsh</command> with no parameters and editing
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the shell from there would work also.</para>
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<note>
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<para>The shell that you wish to use <emphasis>must</emphasis> be
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present in the <filename>/etc/shells</filename> file. If you
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have installed a shell from the <link linkend="ports">ports
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collection</link>, then this should have been done for you
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already. If you installed the shell by hand, you must do
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this.</para>
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<para>For example, if you installed <command>bash</command> by hand
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and placed it into <filename>/usr/local/bin</filename>, you would
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want to:</para>
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<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>echo "/usr/local/bin/bash" >> /etc/shells</userinput></screen>
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<para>Then rerun <command>chsh</command>.</para>
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</note>
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</sect2>
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</sect1>
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