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

  • palordrolap@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    zsh is supposed to emulate sh as closely as possible if it is called by that name (it can also be ksh, according to its manual), so I wouldn’t be too concerned even if that did happen.

    (bash can do the sh trick too. Many(?) distros don’t actually use the bigger shells for that and install something like dash - a pure POSIX shell with no other bells and whistles - to act as sh when called that way.)

    Other suspect configurations might not be as fortunate, but this one is fine.