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Jonathan Levi, M.D. wrote:
> At 3:30 PM -0500 11/11/09, Mark J. Reed wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Peter O'Gorman <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>  On 11/11/2009 01:55 PM, [email protected] wrote:
>>>>  Can someone on this list help me with the following problem with bash?
>>>>
>>>>  A simple bash script of mine reads:
>>>>
>>>>  #!/bin/bash
>>>>  echo {1..3}
>>>>
>>>>  When I run it, it prints {1..3}, not 1 2 3 as I expect. My version of bash
>>>>  is 4.0.33(1), and running "ls -l /bin/bash" gives
>>>>
>>>>  -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 581636 Dec 13  2006 /bin/bash
>> /bin/bash is not 4.0.33(1), then.  4.0.33 is much more recent than
>> 2006!  You must have be running a different bash when you check the
>> version - /sw/bin/bash, maybe? If you put that in your script (e.g.
>> #!/sw/bin/bash instead of #!/bin/bash), it should work.
> 
> Thank you all for your help. "#!/sw/bin/bash" did the trick. To avoid 
> this confusion in the future, is there any reason I shouldn't move 
> /bin/bash to, say, /bin/bash.ori and replace it with a link? Or is 
> there a better solution, assuming I want to stay with OS X 10.4 for 
> now?--Jonathan
> 
> 

I'd strongly recommend _against_ messing with the system files.  Why not
just modify your scripts to use Fink's bash?

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Alexander Hansen
Fink User Liaison
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