Recall when we were talking about the UNIX operating system we said that UNIX shells provide a "command line" interface which allows the user to type in commands which are translated by the shell into something the kernel can comprehend and then is sent off to the kernel for it to act upon.
Just like the applications, desktop manager, window manager, etc... what shell use is left up to the user's discretion.
On the UMBC GL network, the default UNIX shell is tcsh - Turbo C SHell. However this can be changed as the user sees fit. Your shell can be changed via http://accounts.umbc.edu/. Shells available on GL include ...
Most Linux systems (especially home installations) default to the bash shell, thus we will cover this as well.
Usually there is a command called chsh that stands for change shell. You have to enter your password and then the absolute path to the new shell that you wish to use.
(06:08 PM): chsh Changing shell for dan. Password: New shell [/bin/bash]: /bin/csh Shell changed. (06:08 PM): |