Make zsh your default user shell

From OS X Scientific Computing

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To use zsh, all you need to do is issue the following command. 

chsh -s /bin/zsh

Then you need to start a new terminal session. To change back, simply issue 

chsh -s /bin/bash

or 

chsh -s /bin/tcsh

If you would like to use a version of zsh compiled with fink or compiled manually and installed in /usr/local, you need to do two things:

  1. Edit the file /etc/shells to include the full path (eg: /sw/bin/zsh or /usr/local/bin/zsh ).
  2. Issue the command 
chsh -s /sw/bin/zsh

or 

chsh -s /usr/local/bin/zsh


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