<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I think I found a way to fix this: <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Terminal > Preferences > General, in “Shells open with” keep “Command (complete path)” chosen and replace <span style="font-family: Menlo; font-size: 13px;" class="">/usr/local/bin/bash</span> with <span style="font-family: Menlo; font-size: 13px;" class="">/opt/local/bin/bash</span></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" size="2" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="">(Or is this problemmatic?)<font face="Menlo" size="2" class=""><br class=""></font><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 31 Aug2020, at 1:25 PM, Stephen J. Butler <<a href="mailto:stephen.butler@gmail.com" class="">stephen.butler@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">In Terminal -> Preferences -> Profiles find the profile that's your default or that you frequently use and select it. Under the "Shell" tab does it have anything for Startup "Run command"?</div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 12:22 PM Murray Eisenberg <<a href="mailto:murrayeisenberg@gmail.com" class="">murrayeisenberg@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" class="">To get the MacPorts bash 5.0 the default shell, I now tried:</div><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" class=""><span style="white-space:pre-wrap" class=""> </span>- edit <span style="font-family:Menlo;font-size:13px" class="">/private/etc/shells </span>so as to add <span style="font-family:Menlo;font-size:13px" class="">/opt/local/bin/bash</span></div><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" class=""><span style="white-space:pre-wrap" class=""> </span>- in System Preferences > Users & Groups, I opened Advanced Options for my (adminstrator’s) account and changed the entry for Login shell to <span style="font-family:Menlo;font-size:13px" class="">/opt/local/bin/bash</span></div><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" class=""><span style="white-space:pre-wrap" class=""> </span>- rebooted</div><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" class="">Still, when I open Terminal and issue command “<span style="font-family:Menlo;font-size:13px" class="">echo $BASH_VERSION</span>” I get response: <span style="font-family:Menlo;font-size:13px" class="">3.2.57(1)-release</span></div><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" class=""><span style="font-family:Menlo;font-size:13px" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" class="">Note: if in that apparent 3.2.57 shell in Terminal, if I give command “<span style="font-family:Menlo;font-size:13px" class="">bash</span>” then of course I get response <span style="font-family:Menlo;font-size:13px" class="">5.0.17(1)-release</span></div><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 31 Aug2020, at 12:32 PM, Murray Eisenberg <<a href="mailto:murrayeisenberg@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">murrayeisenberg@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class=""><div class=""><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" class="">I want to upgrade the built-ub bash 3.2 shell on my macOS Catalina (10.15.6) to bash 5.0.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I tried to do this by building from scratch, using the methods given at <a href="https://scriptingosx.com/2019/02/install-bash-5-on-macos/?unapproved=66418&moderation-hash=e680aa22ae89f6f565cadd63e63d04e0#comment-66418" target="_blank" class="">https://scriptingosx.com/2019/02/install-bash-5-on-macos/?unapproved=66418&moderation-hash=e680aa22ae89f6f565cadd63e63d04e0#comment-66418</a>. But the final step, “sudo make install” gave a fatal error of <span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Noto Serif",serif;font-size:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" class="">‘libintl.h’ file not found.</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So then I successfully installed the MacPorts port <span style="font-family:Menlo;font-size:13px" class="">bash @5.0.17_0.</span></div><div class=""><font color="#333333" face="Noto Serif, serif" class=""><span style="font-size:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div class="">—> But how do I make this bash 5.0 my shell when I open Terminal?</div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div>
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