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Started taking the 'Programming for everyone' course on Coursera to learn python. Ive downloaded 2 text editors. Atom and Pycharm. When I open the terminal both say, "The default interactive shell is now zsh. To update your account to use zsh, please run chsh -s /bin/zsh."

Please understand I'm totally new. This is the first time I've ever used a text editor or terminal so don't know where to run this or how to straighten this out. Im using a 2015 MacBook Pro running 10.15.7Image is screenshot of editor and terminal in pycahrm im in.

Gear Plan
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  • I was not aware that Atom by itself chooses a certain shell for its purpose. I think you can [configure](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42277302/change-terminal-in-atom-editors-platformio-ide-terminal-on-windows) it according to your taste. While I personally prefer do zsh as interactive login shell, you should not let a text editor dictate to you what shell you are going to use. If you use, say, fish or bash interactively and are happy with it, I don't see why you should change your login shell. – user1934428 May 10 '21 at 07:45
  • I have zero experience with a text editor so don't understand what I need to do to run any code from the text editor in the local terminal. I don't really care what I use but when I try to run something I get, "To update your account to use zsh, please run `chsh -s /bin/zsh`" I don't know where I need to run that or how. Or what I need to do to run any of the other shells you mentioned. – Gear Plan May 10 '21 at 18:21
  • It's a matter of taste, but I never run code "out of the editor", although I am aware that some developers find it convenient. I use the editor to edit the code, and have my terminal open to run the code. I personally find this simpler than having the editor somehow setting up an environment for me. If you want to stick with configuring the editor in a suitable way, please ask this question at [su], because [so] is for programming problems. – user1934428 May 11 '21 at 06:36

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Yeah, it sucks. I had the same problem with Pycharm, but this solution worked for me.

1- Change zsh to bash

$ /bin/bash

2 - Get the commands back like (cd, ls, clear ...)

PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin

3 - Get the profile back

. /etc/profile

After that your porfile will look like this "username:" instead of this "%n@%m %1~ %#"

One more thing, if you using mac, open your terminal and check preference. In the preferences go to General -> Shells open with -> if it is Default Login shell which means you are using zsh, you should change to Command (complete path): and add /bin/bash in the space below so that your default change to bash.

I hope it was useful for you, and for the people looking for answers. Cause, I wasted an hour looking for solution that JetBrain Pycharm and Apple couldn't provide.

Just Fabio
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