Install BASH shell on FreeBSD

Bash is an sh-compatible command language interpreter that executes commands read from the standard input or from a file. csh / tcsh (C shell with file name completion and command line editing) is the default shell under FreeBSD. However, you can easily install and use bash as shell.

• Update the ports snapshot

portsnap fetch update

• Install BASH

cd /usr/ports/shells/bash
make install clean

• To update existing users to use BASH, enter:

chsh -s /usr/local/bin/bash {username}