hi ;
Right now my default shell on our school system is :
/bin/ksh
but i want to change it to another shell. There is also bash shell installed in the system as : /bin/bash
So, how can I change my default shell to bash shell? Or maybe any other shell? (17 Replies)
I am new to UNIX hence the question. Most of the time when I have an environment set up for me to develop my systems, I have had my ID logon and I can edit the .profile for my account and it understand commands korn shell. It seems this machine, a new SUN machine, was setup with users getting the... (3 Replies)
Hi
The line for input of my shell currently looks like in the image attached. What I wanted is for the line where I input, it showed in last, the folder I'm in (in the attached images is "Documents") and not my user name "Pedro_Gordo". How do I do this?
My OS is Mac OS X 10.6.
Thanks in... (7 Replies)
Hello,
I've changed the shell for user jack in /etc/passwd to ksh but when I log in it's still saying the shell is bash.
Any help much appreciated (4 Replies)
Hi,
I want to change the shellrite now I am in ksh shell , I want to switch to bash shell
I have tried the command ...
$ chsh -s /bin/bash
but it is showing error ....
-ksh: chsh: not found (1 Reply)
I am writing a simple DHCP server application that gets ip from a server at boot up ! i wrote a shell script to run the java program that obtains ip from server on another machine...
The problem is when i have obtained the ip i store it in a file ! using awk i retrieve the... (1 Reply)
I would like to replicate the functionality of chsh (or passwd -e) by awk.
This is what I got so far, but I think there should be an easier way to search and replace field $7 only for lines beginning with user_name:
awk -v user_name="$user_name" -v new_shell="$new_shell" -F: '$1 == user_name {... (2 Replies)