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Changing the default shell

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Changing the default shell

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- [Man] On a Linux system, when we work with the command line, most of the time we start out using Bash. Bash is an extremely common shell to use across many distros, but it's by no means the only shell you might use. Other shells offer different features and some of them are well suited for specific kinds of work and most provide productivity improvements when you learn to work with them efficiently. There's a few ways to go about using different shells on Linux. On my system, Bash comes pre-installed and that's probably the shell you have if you're using Ubuntu, Debian, Redhat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, Fedora, or many of the other widely used distros. Some distros have other shells available and we can always install different shells using the package manager as well. In the next few episodes, we'll take a look at some shells other than Bash. For now, though, I'll just switch to SH, the bourne shell, because that's already available on pretty much every system that has Bash. There's…

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