Years ago I did shell surgery on a PowerMac running Tiger. What I did
then, simply, was to replace the shell executable by the new version,
keeping the old one around with a .bak extension or something like that.
Needless to say, this was done only after verifying the new one worked,
and the version was only a point change as this was merely to fix a
vulnerability that at the time caused a bit of a stir. Tiger was not
supported anymore so Apple did not provide a fix.
My $0.02
Uli
On 8/31/20 12:22 PM, Murray Eisenberg wrote:
To get the MacPorts bash 5.0 the default shell, I now tried:
- edit /private/etc/shells so as to add /opt/local/bin/bash
- in System Preferences > Users & Groups, I opened Advanced Options
for my (adminstrator’s) account and changed the entry for Login shell
to /opt/local/bin/bash
- rebooted
Still, when I open Terminal and issue command “echo $BASH_VERSION” I
get response: 3.2.57(1)-release
Note: if in that apparent 3.2.57 shell in Terminal, if I give command
“bash” then of course I get response 5.0.17(1)-release
On 31 Aug2020, at 12:32 PM, Murray Eisenberg
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I want to upgrade the built-ub bash 3.2 shell on my macOS Catalina
(10.15.6) to bash 5.0.
I tried to do this by building from scratch, using the methods given
at
https://scriptingosx.com/2019/02/install-bash-5-on-macos/?unapproved=66418&moderation-hash=e680aa22ae89f6f565cadd63e63d04e0#comment-66418.
But the final step, “sudo make install” gave a fatal error of
‘libintl.h’ file not found.
So then I successfully installed the MacPorts port bash @5.0.17_0.
—> But how do I make this bash 5.0 my shell when I open Terminal?
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