Making zsh the default

Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) lhall@rfk.com
Mon Jan 27 10:28:00 GMT 2003


At 07:06 PM 1/26/2003, Virginia Mann wrote:
>This is probably a dumb question, but I'm a real newbie, so here goes....
>
>What is the proper way to make zsh the default shell in Cygwin? I installed it and can start it up by typing "zsh" at a bash prompt, but how do I make it take the place of the bash shell entirely?



Assuming you start bash now by clicking on the icon for cygwin.bat, simply
edit that file, and replace "bash" with "zsh".  You'll need to review the 
man page for zsh to see what are the appropriate flags to pass to get a 
login shell.  I don't have zsh installed otherwise I might give you a 
clue. ;-)



Larry Hall                              lhall@rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc.                      http://www.rfk.com
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