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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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Where is zsh supposed to be? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi all I have a quick question. Is it better for my zsh shell to be in /usr/bin/zsh or /bin/zsh. I remember reading that one of them would mess up the whole system since zsh is not posix compliant. I believe that szh shouldn't be set as the root shell. I now have it in /usr/bin/zsh, is that good? So now when I drop into a root shell I don't get they autocompletion feature that zsh has. I'd also lose that fancy theme. Does that mean my root shell is still bash? Thanks

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wherever your distro's package manager puts it is where it should go. Do not move or mess with the files in /bin or /usr/bin. Their location doesn't affect anything that you should care about. It is only so the system knows where to find them when working with their packages.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not trying to move any of these two directories, I'm just trying to set the zsh shell as the default and didn't know which one to choose since there are two.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I recommend you read man usermod and particularly the --shell option for that utility

Edit: also observe how the default shells are stored in /etc/passwd (but don't manually edit that file!)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you