Day 94: Updating Bash Shell on Mac

[mchirico]

Video Day 94

I think "brew" is installed on your Mac? If not, you can get it here. It's a package manager.

• [x] Check that brew is installed
• [x] Download "bash" shell brew install bash
• [x] Set bash as the default shell

1. Will have to edit /etc/shells
2. Update with chsh -s /usr/local/bin/bash command

chsh -s /usr/local/bin/bash

Note, the above command won't work unless /usr/local/bin/bash has been added to the '/etc/shells' file.

Here's my /etc/shells file

# List of acceptable shells for chpass(1).
# Ftpd will not allow users to connect who are not using
# one of these shells.

/bin/bash
/bin/csh
/bin/dash
/bin/ksh
/bin/sh
/bin/tcsh
/bin/zsh
/opt/local/bin/fish
/usr/local/bin/bash

• [x] Confirm Bash is updated with the following command: echo $BASH_VERSION

Reference

https://www.howtogeek.com/444596/how-to-change-the-default-shell-to-bash-in-macos-catalina/

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