Make iTerm2 launch with Zsh

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greduan picture greduan · Nov 20, 2012 · Viewed 69.3k times · Source

I've been digging through iTerm2's settings but I can't seem to find a way to make it launch Zsh instead of Bash, does anybody know the proper way to do this inside iTerm2?

I ask this because I come from Mac Terminal, and it easily lets you choose what to run at startup, but I can't seem to find something straight forward with iTerm2.

I searched Google for it, but for some reason I can only find oh-my-zsh references, nothing related to un-modded iTerm2.

I appreciate any help you can provide, thanks. :)

Answer

Adam Batkin picture Adam Batkin · Nov 20, 2012

Change your default shell to /bin/zsh by running the chsh -s /bin/zsh command.

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