zsh is not working Catalina

I have made bin/zsh default but chsh -s /bin/zsh showing chsh: no changes made.

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Posted on Apr 28, 2020 2:56 AM

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VikingOSX

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Apr 28, 2020 5:00 AM in response to fahmida177

When you run chsh -s /bin/zsh, nothing will happen until your quit the Terminal, and relaunch it. If you are running the Z shell, your terminal prompt will now end in a '%' character. Also, Zsh requires its own "dot" startup files (e.g. ~/.zshrc, ~/.zsh_profile) as it does not read the Bash startup items.

leroydouglas

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Apr 28, 2020 4:16 AM in response to fahmida177

fahmida177 wrote:

I have made bin/zsh default but chsh -s /bin/zsh showing chsh: no changes made.

So what is your current shell?

To see you current shell, copy and paste:

 echo $SHELL

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