How do I know if zsh is working?

Installing ZSH on Ubuntu

zshrc file on a Mac? The . zshrc file will be located in the users home directory, or ~/ , and this user . zshrc file is where you’d place customizations to the z shell.

Zsh, also known as the Z shell, extends functionality of the Bourne Shell (sh), offering newer features and more support for plugins and themes . Starting with MacOS Catalina in 2019, Zsh became the default login and interactive shell in Mac machines.

Update your Terminal preferences to open the shell with the command /bin/bash , as shown in the screenshot above. Quit and restart Terminal. You should see “hello from bash”, but if you run echo $SHELL , you will see /bin/zsh .