
#Copy file versions mac os x terminal install
You can also download and install a newer version of bash yourself. export BASH_SILENCE_DEPRECATION_WARNING=1 If you want to continue using /bin/bash, you can supress this message by setting an environment variable in your. Users that have /bin/bash as their default shell on Catalina will see a prompt at the start of each Terminal session stating that zsh is now the recommended default shell. Many installers and other solutions would break and simply cease to function. If Apple just yanked this binary in macOS 10.15 Catalina or even 10.16. Many scripts in macOS, management systems, and Apple and third party installers rely on /bin/bash. When you upgrade to Catalina, a user’s default shell will remain what it was before. This change is only for new accounts created on macOS Catalina. MacOS Catalina still has the same /bin/bash (version 3.2.57) as Mojave and earlier macOS versions. macOS 10.15 Catalina has the current zsh 5.7.1. The zsh version on macOS 10.14 Mojave is fairly new (5.3). zsh has been available as on macOS for a long time. Zsh, on the other hand, has an ‘MIT-like’ license, which makes it much more palatable for Apple to include in the system by default. The reason Apple has not switched to these newer versions is that they are licensed with GPL v3. bash v4 was released in 2009 and bash v5 in January 2019. The bash binary bundled with macOS has been stuck on version 3.2 for a long time now.

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#Copy file versions mac os x terminal update
Like my other books, I plan to update and add to it after release as well, keeping it relevant and useful. This series has grown into a book: reworked and expanded with more detail and topics.

bash has been the default shell since Mac OS X 10.3 Panther. Zsh (I believe it is pronounced zee-shell, though zish is fun to say) will succeed bash as the default shell.

In this series, I will document my experiences moving bash settings, configurations, and scripts over to zsh. Apple has announced that in macOS 10.15 Catalina the default shell will be zsh.
