zsh

[ratmav]

after upgrading to macos catalina, i see this:

The default interactive shell is now zsh.
To update your account to use zsh, please run `chsh -s /bin/zsh`.
For more details, please visit https://support.apple.com/kb/HT208050.
[ccuming@ccuming ~]$

thrilling. ok, so this means that i need to run the chsh command, then migrate my bash configs to zsh, then script the zsh setup. a stretch goal is to take a look at oh-my-zsh.

this is kind of a pain (bash has "just worked" for me so far), but my understanding is that zsh is just the interpreter, and i can still use bash as a scripting language (for the most part). apple has more info here.

this also means that it's probably worth it on linux (centos stream) to switch to zsh to reuse code.

[ratmav]

saw here that using the #!/bin/sh shebang should enforce cross-shell compatibility. neat. will make that change.

[ratmav]

lol i just decided to use homebrew to install a current version of bash.