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Old 05-03-2011
Opening a terminal with bash
Hi,

The computer that I use is on a network and has the exact same installation as other computers on the network (Ubuntu 10.04 LTS). When I open a new terminal window by default it opens a tcsh shell. I don't have the root privilege to modify it.

Is it possible to open a terminal window that will run a bash shell? If yes, how?

Thanks in advance,
Gaurab
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Old 05-03-2011
Add exec /bin/bash to your ~/.tcshrc, tcsh will load this file and cause it to run a bash shell on login.

If you ever really do need tcsh, you'll have to run tcsh -f to make it bypass these files.
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Old 05-03-2011
Thank you very much. That works like a charm.

I have another question (maybe not very relevant). I want "open in terminal" option in the context menu in a folder in nautilus. I know it's possible by installing "nautilus-open-terminal" package, but I don't have root privilege. Is it possible to do it without the root privilege?
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Old 05-04-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by Corona688
Add exec /bin/bash to your ~/.tcshrc, tcsh will load this file and cause it to run a bash shell on login.

If you ever really do need tcsh, you'll have to run tcsh -f to make it bypass these files.
This works great but when I want to get something from the computer remotely using scp, it gets stuck. I mean, the scp command just hangs in there.


Any suggestion how to solve this issue?
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Old 05-04-2011
Does it work when you remove the command from your tcshrc?
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Old 05-04-2011
Yes, it does.
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Old 05-04-2011
That's what you'll have to do, then.
 
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