Choosing Your Shell
In most Linux systems, your default shell is the bash shell. To find out what your current login shell is, type the following command:
$ echo $SHELL
/bin/bash
In this example, it’s the bash shell. There are many other shells, and you can activate a different one by simply typing the new shell’s command (ksh, tcsh, csh, sh, bash, and so forth) from the current shell. For example, to change temporarily to the C shell, type the following command:
$ csh
You might want to choose a different shell to use because:
• You are used to using UNIX System V systems (often ksh by default) or Sun Microsystems and other Berkeley UNIX–based distributions (frequently csh by default), and you are more comfortable using default shells from those environments.
• You want to run shell scripts that were created for a particular shell
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