What the ZSH is ZSH, and what is BASH anyway? An iOS developer’s guide
A simple comparison
Before we start
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Keywords and Terminology:
Bash: Bash, which stands for Bourne Again SHell, is a command-line interpreter that runs on Unix, Linux, and Apple computers
Shell: a computer program which exposes an operating system’ s services to a human user or other program
Terminal: an interface that allows you to access the command line
ZSH: The Z shell, more commonly referred to as zsh , is a UNIX shell that is built on top of the Bourne shell (macOS default shell), better known as bash
What is this about?
I’ve previously written about Bash scripts, yet for a long time I’ve had the following message everytime that I’ve started up terminal:
yet I’ve never really understood what it meant, and looking at the link it only happened because I’ve upgraded my Mac’s OS over time. The Apple link happliy points me to the…
