03-14-2009
Changing Default Shell
I bought a used MacBook G4 with Tiger 10.4.11
Running fine, then I noticed a few things were missing.
I don't have Terminal or Netinfo Manager in my Utilities!
I downloaded iTerm, but for some reason my shell is set to /dev/null
I know I can change my shell using Netinfo Manager, but I don't have that either!
The only command line interface I have is through single-user mode...
Thanks in advance.
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NAME
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SYNOPSIS
shell command [command] ...
DESCRIPTION
The shell function concatenate its arguments, separating each by a space, and passes this string to the shell ($SHELL if set, otherwise
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EXAMPLES
Example 1 A sample output of shell command.
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