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Does it still come with a 20 year version of bash by default?

• eric-hu 6y ago
  Something like that, but they changed the default shell to zsh, which is newer.
  • bombcar 6y ago
    I thank Apple for going to zsh- forcing me to begin learning it and now I have it on all my mzchiesn.
    • Toutouxc 6y ago
      I find your misspelling of "machines" charming.
      • bombcar 6y ago
        I am continually boggled by what my iPhone corrects and doesn’t correct.
• _-___________-_ 6y ago
  sudo port install bash && echo /usr/local/bin/bash | sudo tee -a /etc/shells && chsh -s /usr/local/bin/bash
  • asguy 6y ago
    ... and then you run a script that depends on `/bin/bash` .. but uses a feature (e.g. coproc, associative arrays) from a version less than a decade old. And then you go and update your PATH and shebang lines to call out `/usr/bin/env bash` and hope things go right.
• anuragsoni 6y ago
  Starting with macOS Catalina zsh is the default [1] shell. [1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208050 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208050
  • dietr1ch 6y ago
    TIL zsh is more than 20 years old https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z_shell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z_shell
• nijaru 6y ago
  I prefer linux, but it is quite easy to install different shells on macOS.