For those of you transitioning from Linux to FreeBSD, a sense of familiarity is a desirable trait during the change.
Most Linux distros have the bash shall set as the default.
You will likely find that a vanilla FreeBSD installation won't already have the bash shell installed and you''ll need to install it (the default shell for FreeBSD is tsch).
Run pkg update to get the latest packages.
After this has completed, next we'll run the actual installation by issuing the following command:
pkg install bash
Then run the following to set the shell to bash, where the username in the command equals the username you want to change the shell for:
chsh -s /usr/local/bin/bash username
Alternately you can run the following:
pw usermod username -s /usr/local/bin/bash
To set the shell permanently
If you want more information on Shells within FreeBSD, see the following from the FreeBSD Foundation:
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