macOS 10.15 Catalina brought many big changes to the Mac, like lack of support for legacy 32-bit apps, but one that you could easily have missed is the default Terminal shell switching from bash (the ...

If you spend any length of time in the shell, chances are you’ve typed the same commands over and over. It’s usually not anything you can necessarily script as the commands may vary slightly on each ...

If you use the terminal a lot, you can probably understand the frequent pain of typing out long commands. Bash's tab completion is ineffective, file paths are tedious to write, and typos are a ...

is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Apple hasn’t explained exactly why it’s making this change, but bash isn’t exactly ...

Yesterday, at its WWDC developer conference, Apple unveiled the latest version of the MacOS operating system. Codenamed Catalina, it’s a fairly significant update for the platform, not least because ...

Kali Linux 2020.4 was released yesterday by Offensive Security, and it takes the big step of changing the default shell from Bash to ZSH. Kali Linux comes with numerous software packages and tools ...

Kali Linux 2020.3 was released today by Offensive Security, and it begins the first steps of switching from Bash as the default shell to ZSH. Kali Linux is a distribution built for security ...

If you don't love the shell you're using on your Linux system, change it! There are plenty, including bash, fish, ksh, tcsh, zsh. There are quite a few shells on Linux system and more that can be ...

Globbing is a way of expanding wildcard characters in a non-specific file name into a set of specific file names. Shells use globbing all the time. For instance: When you enter the above, you’re using ...