I’m not sure how I made it this far into my career without knowing I could quickly switch between fish and bash and zsh and any other shell I have on my system by simply typing the name of the shell I want to use.
Since I switched from zsh to fish around a year and a half ago, I’ve kept the stock macOS Terminal app (I normally use iTerm) set up to use zsh just in case I wanted to test something in a POSIX-compatible shell. All this time I’ve thought I’d have to do the following if I wanted to switch from fish to zsh:
- Type
chsh -s (which zsh) - Enter my account password
- Open a new terminal tab
Nope.
Just type zsh. Done.