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joefolino Author

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How to reset Terminal to initial settings?

Hi all,

I lately have been trying to learn programming through online sources (particularly YouTube). I managed to fiddle around with the terminal application successfully but I am afraid I have done some damage. Since my knowledge of computers is so small, I don't know what I have done. I just know that it is not behaving the way tutorials expect it to.

I would like to reset the Terminal to how it was without me touching it. Is there away to delete my progress and start fresh?

Thanks.

MacBook Air, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)

Posted on Dec 31, 2012 9:05 PM

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BobHarris

Level 9

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Posted on Aug 1, 2016 12:31 PM

There are several ways to do this. Start with this article, and if it does not satisfy your needs, please give feedback with what didn't work, and that might help identify how to adjust the change shell approach

<http://osxdaily.com/2012/03/21/change-shell-mac-os-x/>

Oh yea, you are going for /bin/bash, which is the current OS X shell, and it also happens to be the Linux default shell, so that would be the best choice among the available shells.

Or Google "Mac OS X change shell" which is how I got the above article, but there were more hits. And I know a few of my own tricks, but explaining them is something I need pictures for.

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