Upgrading to Bash 4 on MacOS [Snippet]
Upgrading to Bash 4 on MacOS [Snippet]
Need to access those shiny features in Bash 4 from your Mac? Look at how to quickly and easily upgrade from Bash 3.
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Join For FreeIncredibly, macOS Mojave comes with Bash 3.22 by default still. Apparently this is due to licensing reasons, however Bash 4 has lots of lovely features including associative arrays that I’d like use. Hence, after reading on the internet for a bit, I’ve installed it on my Mac. This turned out to require just 3 commands:
$ brew install bash
$ sudo bash -c 'echo /usr/local/bin/bash >> /etc/shells'
$ chsh -s /usr/local/bin/bashClose the terminal and open a new one, which now has Bash 4!
Using Bash 4 in Scripts
Any script that starts with #!/bin/bash will continue to use Bash 3, so we use env in the same way as we do with PHP, Ruby, or Python scripts and start our Bash script files with:
#!/usr/bin/env bashThis will now use Bash 4 when you run the script interactively.
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