Possible side effects of changing shell from zsh to bash
Answer from the Stack Overflow (switching from zsh to bash):
You can just use exec to replace your current shell with a new shell:
Switch to bash:
exec bash
Switch to zsh:
exec zsh
This won't affect new terminal windows or anything, but it's convenient.
Changing your shell, via sudo chsh --shell=/bin/bash $USER
will change the shell field in /etc/passwd
. This value is only consulted at login time, when the system has no idea of which shell to use for you.
Running processes, whether started by zsh
, bash
apache
or evil_overlord's_program
won't be affected
Open your terminal and use the following command:
chsh -s $(which bash)