Change Your Shell

There was a question on the forum: "How do I change shell ?" . . .  And the answer is simple, but let me first tell you something about shells.
The default shell for most distros is the bash shell ( See Bash ), but there are more shells available, just type the following command and the ones for your distro will be listed:
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$ chsh -l
This commands will show you the shells that are mentioned in the /etc/shells file.
On my distro the above command will show:
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/bin/bash
/bin/csh
/bin/ksh
/bin/sh
/bin/tcsh
Now imagine I would want to switch to the /bin/sh shell, I can do that just for the session or permanently.
1). For temporary changing the shell you just give the command:
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$ /bin/sh
and you will see the prompt changing to a different one ( again, on my system it shows: "sh-3.00$" ).
You can change it back by simply giving the command:
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$ /bin/bash
2). For permanently changing the shell you can use the "chsh" command:
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$ chsh -s /bin/sh
You will be prompted for a password and for confirmation it will show you for what user you are changing the shell.

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