chsh -s to homebrew bash

[hyperknot]

I'd like to use homebrew bash (5.x) instead of the macOS built-in one (3.3). How can I do it?
1. I run brew install bash
2. I added /opt/homebrew/bin/bash to /etc/shells
3. I run chsh -s /opt/homebrew/bin/bash

Yet, when I open a new terminal this is what it says
echo $BASH && echo $BASH_VERSION
/opt/homebrew/bin/bash
3.2.57(1)-release

If I manually run bash, this is that it says

echo $BASH && echo $BASH_VERSION
/opt/homebrew/bin/bash
5.2.32(1)-release

So somehow the $BASH variable is the same but $BASH_VERSION is the old when using chsh / opening new terminal.

 

[Nugget]

That's a puzzler. I have no theory, but I'd be interested to know what you get if you run

/opt/homebrew/bin/bash --version

 

[chrfr]

I'd like to use homebrew bash (5.x) instead of the macOS built-in one (3.3). How can I do it?
1. I run brew install bash
2. I added /opt/homebrew/bin/bash to /etc/shells
3. I run chsh -s /opt/homebrew/bin/bash

Yet, when I open a new terminal this is what it says
echo $BASH && echo $BASH_VERSION
/opt/homebrew/bin/bash
3.2.57(1)-release

If I manually run bash, this is that it says

echo $BASH && echo $BASH_VERSION
/opt/homebrew/bin/bash
5.2.32(1)-release

So somehow the $BASH variable is the same but $BASH_VERSION is the old when using chsh / opening new terminal.

In the Terminal app, you can set a default shell right there under the general section. I’m not sure but this may override other settings. Try setting the full path to homebrew bash there.

 

[hyperknot]

Thanks, it turns out Alacritty is doing this weird behaviour, other terminals are working correctly.

 

[Adora]

How can I see what version my bash is?

Edit: I just entered bash and it shows 5.2

Could be I installed it, when I searched for commands to install with homebrew and just installed some without knowing what they are.

 

[hyperknot]

How can I see what version my bash is?

echo $BASH && echo $BASH_VERSION

 

[Adora]

echo $BASH && echo $BASH_VERSION

Tried that, but wasn't in bash and only got an empty line as output. 🙈

P.S.: I don't even know what bash is but I like having newer versions of everything.

 

[Adora]

Thanks, it turns out Alacritty is doing this weird behaviour, other terminals are working correctly.

I changed Terminal (standard macOS) to bash in the homebrew directory as standard and it's now also only version 3.2.

P.S.: Do you maybe know what vagrant is? It's also in the opt directory together with homebrew.

 

[hyperknot]

You have to use `chsh -s /opt/homebrew/bin/bash`

 

[bogdanw]

Easily build bash from source:
- download bash-5.2.32.tar.gz (or the current latest) from https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bash/
- unarchive bash-5.2.32.tar.gz and open a Terminal window into the bash-5.2.32
- run

./configure

make

sudo make install

- restart Terminal

which bash should return /usr/local/bin/bash and bash --version should return GNU bash, version 5.2.32(1)-release

 

[Adora]

You have to use `chsh -s /opt/homebrew/bin/bash`

Thanks.

But I had to change it in the menu too, that it worked.

Why does it show zsh there?

P.S.: I changed my user name a while ago. Will it forever be xxx in Terminal and Finder?