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Changing to zsh from bash

does changing to zsh from bash in Catalina effect or change the performance of the OS X ?

MacBook Pro 15", macOS 10.15

Posted on Dec 31, 2019 10:01 AM

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Posted on Dec 31, 2019 10:18 AM

Weemac123 wrote:

does changing to zsh from bash in Catalina effect or change the performance of the OS X ?


No.


https://support.apple.com/en-lk/guide/terminal/trml113/mac


You can see all the available shells from the terminal, copy and paste:


cat /etc/shells


The shell is simply an interactive login command interpreter and as a shell script command processor.

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Dec 31, 2019 10:18 AM in response to Weemac123

Weemac123 wrote:

does changing to zsh from bash in Catalina effect or change the performance of the OS X ?


No.


https://support.apple.com/en-lk/guide/terminal/trml113/mac


You can see all the available shells from the terminal, copy and paste:


cat /etc/shells


The shell is simply an interactive login command interpreter and as a shell script command processor.

Changing to zsh from bash

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