OS X refuses to setting fish as default shell(installed via Homebrew)

[tiye]

➤➤ chsh -s /usr/local/bin/fish
Changing shell for jiyinyiyong.
Password for jiyinyiyong:
chsh: /usr/local/bin/fish: non-standard shell

While it works when I use the pkg which installed fish at /usr/bin/fish.

[siteshwar]

Is /usr/local/bin/fish listed in /etc/shells file ?

[tiye]

@siteshwar After installed that pkg package for Mac, it does.
I didn't check /etc/shells before... I'll check again later.

[tiye]

It works how. My mistake, I didn't notice I should modify /etc/shell manully..
Maybe it's due to the super long output from brew install fish.
Thanks, closing it.

[jitendravyas]

i m alsi having same problem. what to do?

[ridiculousfish]

@jitendravyas You must add the line /usr/local/bin/fish to /etc/shells

[TimothyBramlett]

Solved the problem for me also. For anyone else who encounters this I had to add /usr/local/bin/fish to /etc/shells and then I had to re-run the command:

chsh -s /usr/local/bin/fish

After that, fish was now the default shell for OS X Terminal!

[Kurt29]

but why is fish in that location? and not in /bin/ like the other shells?
I installed zsh over brew too, and it is in /bin/

[zanchey]

The version of zsh in /bin/zsh is shipped with OS X; if you install from Homebrew, it will be in /usr/local/bin/zsh like fish.

$ /usr/local/bin/zsh --version
zsh 5.4.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0)
$ /bin/zsh --version
zsh 5.0.8 (x86_64-apple-darwin15.0)

[geoffmacintosh]

So that's a bit confusing. By default, macOS has bash, zsh and a few others pre-installed in /bin/. Homebrew doesn't ever install to /bin/, so you'll find an out-of-date copy of zsh at /bin/zsh and the brew version in /usr/local/bin/zsh.

[Kurt29]

Oh, that actually makes sense.
Didn’t notice because I had zsh over brew too