How does Chezmoi pick a shell for its cd command?

[J-Kappes]

I recently switched to nushell and my .profile file specifies it but when I cm cd from within nushell in both Konsole and Alacritty I wind up in Zsh.

[twpayne]

See https://github.com/twpayne/chezmoi/blob/master/pkg/shell/shell_posix.go#L14.

chezmoi checks the following in order, using the first value that it finds:

1. The $SHELL environment variable.
2. The getpwnam_r library call.
3. The output of getent passwd $USER.
4. The user's entry in /etc/passwd.
5. The default shell for the OS.

Are you sure you changed your shell with chsh?

[J-Kappes]

Are you sure you changed your shell with chsh?

I did not. I hadn't heard of that tool before. But should I use it? I use a locally compiled nushell from my home directory and chsh will only let me pick shells that are listed in /etc/shells. Is it OK to list list my nushell there?

Anyway the reason seems to be that $SHELL variable is still set to Zsh.

[twpayne]

nushell has instructions for setting it as the default shell. You should follow them. This is not related to chezmoi.