I'm trying to use fish shell as my default shell on OSX. I have installed fish shell using brew and when I wanted to add it to /etc/shells I got this error:
tee: /etc/shells: No such file or directory
Here's the command line I used:
echo "usr/local/bin/fish" | sudo tee -a /etc/shells
Source: https://hackercodex.com/guide/install-fish-shell-mac-ubuntu/
Is there something wrong with my $PATH?
You're doing it wrong. You should be using the chsh command to change your user's shell.
$ chsh -s /usr/local/bin/fish
On OSX you apparently have to add this to the /etc/shells file as described in this issue titled: OS X refuses to setting fish as default shell(installed via Homebrew) #989.
To do this you need to run this command to add it to /etc/shells:
$ echo "/usr/local/bin/fish" | sudo tee -a /etc/shells
After that this file will look like this:
$ cat /etc/shells
# List of acceptable shells for chpass(1).
# Ftpd will not allow users to connect who are not using
# one of these shells.
/bin/bash
/bin/csh
/bin/ksh
/bin/sh
/bin/tcsh
/bin/zsh
/usr/local/bin/bash
/usr/local/bin/fish
With the above complete, try the chsh -s ... command again and it should work.
This issue seems to arise with how fish was installed. If you use brew install fish then it's likely that fish was properly added to /etc/shells. If you install fish through some other means, then it's likely that it did not get added as an entry to the /etc/shells file.
In some cases the permissions on /etc itself may be the issue.
$ ll /etc
lrwxr-xr-x@ 1 root wheel 11B Jan 26 2016 /etc -> private/etc
$ ll -d private/etc/
drwxr-xr-x 96 root wheel 3.2K Jul 12 18:53 private/etc/
These permissions are acceptable, if they're not, you can modify them like this:
$ sudo mount -uw /
$ sudo chmod a+x private/etc
With the above changes, chsh -s ... should now work.
$ chsh: /usr/local/bin/fish I get this: chsh: /usr/local/bin/fish: non-standard shell I have read from the source I mentioned above that I should add fish shell to /etc/shells before I use this command-line
$ cat: /etc/shells: No such file or directory When I entered the following command-line: $ ls -l /etc/shells I got this message: lrwxr-xr-x 1 user admin 29 9 Jun 00:20 /etc/shells -> ../Cellar/fish/2.7.1/bin/fish I'm confused, does the file /etc/shells exist?
/etc/shells file and made a link to some other file (link is made using the ln -s command. It looks like you had fish installed via brew based on that ../Cellar/ directory.
sudo unlink /etc/shells.
/etc/shellswhich you could just do with a text editor, you'd still have to run thechshcommand to make it your default shell.