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OS X used tcsh as the default shell way back. Later it used bash 3.x as the default up until Catalina. As of Catalina zsh is the default for new users (and the
by xenadu02 6y ago
OS X used tcsh as the default shell way back. Later it used bash 3.x as the default up until Catalina. As of Catalina zsh is the default for new users (and the version of zsh that ships with macOS is relatively up to date).
- kristopolous 6y agoAlright. I never claimed it was the default shell... That was obviously csh, everyone knows that. It's a bsdism. FreeBSD's default was tcsh essentially until I stopped using it maybe 15 years ago. Zsh was placed onto the hard drive of the computer by the operating system installation cd and was an available executable program that could be invoked from the terminal. There, is that better?