ohmyzsh: Please help! Cannot uninstall zsh.

I installed zsh on my mac but I want to get back to bash. None of the usual commands work on it, sudo, ls, cd, nothing. When i try to uninstall zsh with the uninstall_oh_my_zsh I get the following message: Removing ~/.oh-my-zsh /Users/Matheus/.oh-my-zsh/tools/uninstall.sh: line 4: rm: command not found Looking for original zsh config… Switching back to bash /Users/Matheus/.oh-my-zsh/tools/uninstall.sh: line 24: chsh: command not found Thanks for trying out Oh My Zsh. It’s been uninstalled. But it doesnt unisntall, when I restart Terminal theres zsh. I tried to run the command by its complete path, with the command: Users/Matheus/.oh-my-zsh/tools/uninstall.sh But I get a “zsh: permission denied”. I also cant run it with sudo, because sudo doesnt work. Please guys help me restore my old and good bash.

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Created 11 years ago
Reactions: 2
Comments: 15 (6 by maintainers)

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Explain how to uninstall more fully Based on solution that saved me: https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/issues/1675 — committed to sshadmand/oh-my-zsh by deleted user 8 years ago

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Hi uninstall_oh_my_zsh uninstall the ohmyzsh project from your disk. to switch back to bash you have to execute

chsh -s /bin/bash

for some reason this command was not found

can you try

/usr/bin/chsh -s /bin/bash

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mbauhardt on Mar 28, 2013

Go into terminal Click on help It explains everything

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Mihara17 on Jun 22, 2018

can you try

/usr/bin/chsh -s /bin/bash

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mbauhardt on Mar 28, 2013

This command also doesn`t work: zsh: command not found: chsh

matheuscandido on Mar 28, 2013

That’s what he said, that it doesn’t work. I’d bet that Apple forbids that because the system uses it, even if you don’t. Personally I don’t see why you’d want to remove it, as long as you’ve set it up so that you use bash by default it shouldn’t be a problem.

mcornella on Jan 15, 2020

I am unable to uninstall Zsh. I don’t mean “switch from zsh to bash”. I mean get rid of it so that it no longer exists on my computer. Is there any way to do that?

System: macOS Sierra 10.12.6 Version: zsh 5.2 (x86_64-apple-darwin16.0)

Steps I tried:

~ $ uninstall_oh_my_zsh
-bash: uninstall_oh_my_zsh: command not found
~ $ chsh -s /bin/bash
Changing shell for USER.
Password for USER:
chsh: no changes made
~ $ which zsh
/bin/zsh
~ $ sudo rm -rf /bin/zsh
Password:
rm: /bin/zsh: Operation not permitted

bengrunfeld on Aug 2, 2019

It works! Thank you!

matheuscandido on Mar 28, 2013