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Re: Changing interactive shell from Bash to Zsh
- From: Phil Betts <Phil dot Betts at ascribe dot com>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 15:29:37 +0000 (UTC)
- Subject: Re: Changing interactive shell from Bash to Zsh
- References: <82839db61002090613q71ad993i3441ea83b7b65573@mail.gmail.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Anonymous bin ich writes:
>
> Hi!
>
> I am having trouble changing my shell from Bash to Zsh.
>
> Since there is no chsh, I have tried adding "exec zsh -l" to .bashrc
>
> Unfortunately, since cygwin is started as "interactive login shell",
> it doesn't read .bashrc and so it starts as bash
>
> If I source .bashrc from .bash_profile (which I don't like), then it works.
>
> But then I cannot start X server from the start menu shortcut because
> bash reads .bashrc, executes zsh and exits; even though startxwin.exe
> is called by "bash -l".
>
> So, is there a way to change shell?
>
All chsh does is edit the last field in /etc/passwd. You can do this
yourself in any text editor (assuming you've got write access). Just change
/bin/bash to /bin/zsh and you should be OK.
Don't even think about hacking .bashrc, .bash_profile or .profile. If you
do, then anything that tries to run bash will end up running zsh, and will
probably fail. (This would include all post-install scripts run by setup.exe,
so you'd probably end up with a hosed system)
BTW, this is the wrong list for this topic; it has nothing to do with X.
Phil
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