how use bash 5.0 port

[Uli Wienands]

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 
>> <murrayeisenberg at gmail.com <mailto:murrayeisenberg at gmail.com>> 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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