Posts Tagged ‘shell’

Install the fish shell in OS X

Friday, November 21st, 2008

The fish shell is a modern command-line shell that aims to be more discoverable and less beholden to tradition than other shells like bash and csh. Among its many unique features are on-the-fly syntax highlighting of the command line, as well as tab completion for everything under the sun with descriptions for each possible completion. Unfortunately, this shell does not ship with Mac OS X, so you’ll need to do some work to install it.

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Install the bash shell in OpenBSD

Monday, September 1st, 2008

If you did not buy your copy of OpenBSD then you won’t have any packages available locally in order to install the bash shell. The below example will show how to obtain the BASH package remotely.

  • Step 1 - Adding the BASH shell remotely
  • Step 2 - Setting BASH as your login shell

1. Add the i386 package for the BASH shell:

# pkg_add -v ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/4.3/packages/i386/bash-3.2.33.tgz

2. Setting BASH as your login shell:

# chsh -s bash