Switching from zsh to bash on OSX and back again

Question

So Im learning to develop in Rails  and have discovered the power of zsh  However  for some of my other tasks  I wish to use normal Bash  Although they are the same  I just feel comfortable with the lay out of bash in some situations  How do I switch back and forth  or turn zsh on and off  Thanks

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you can just type bash or if you always want to use bash   on  iTerm2    Go to preferences   Profiles   Command Select  Command  from the dropdown Type bash   Test by closing iTerm and open it again

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You can easily switch back to bash by using command  bye

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In Mac OS Catalina default interactive shell is zsh   To change shell to zsh from bash   chsh -s  bin zsh   Then you need to enter your Mac password  Quit the terminal and reopen it  To check whether it s changed successfully to ssh  issue the following command   echo  SHELL   If the result is  bin zsh  your task is completed   To change it back to bash  issue the following command on terminal   chsh -s  bin bash   Verify it again using echo  SHELL  Then result should be  bin bash

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zsh has a builtin command emulate which can emulate different shells by setting the appropriate options  although csh will never be fully emulated   emulate bash perform commands emulate -R zsh   The -R flag restores all the options to their default values for that shell   See  zsh manual

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if it is just a temporary switch   you can use exec as mentioned above  but for more of a permanent solution    you can use chsh -s  bin bash  to switch to bash  and chsh -s  bin zsh  to switch to zsh

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you can try chsh -s  bin bash to set the bash as the default  or chsh -s  bin zsh to set the zsh as the default  Terminal will need a restart to take effect

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For Bash  try  chsh -s   which bash    For zsh  try  chsh -s   which zsh

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You can just use exec to replace your current shell with a new shell   Switch to bash   exec bash   Switch to zsh   exec zsh   This won t affect new terminal windows or anything  but it s convenient

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I switch between zsh and bash somewhat frequently  For a while  I used to have to source my bash profile every switch  Then I found out you can  typically  do   exec bash --login   or just  exec bash -l

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You should be able just to type bash into the terminal to switch to bash  and then type zsh to switch to zsh  Works for me at least

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