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Thursday, September 29, 2011

Force bash under Ubuntu

Many Ubuntu distributions use dash as default for the shell.
I prefer the classic and more powerful bash.

Here a quick way to force the bash shell as default.
Open a terminal and execute this command :

$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure -plow dash

A message will appear indicating the default shell in use (it should say "dash", in this example is bash because I already executed the dpkg-reconfigure)


Choose No.
Done. From now on the bash shell is the default one for the user.

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