When OSX shebang won’t use Bash 4 from brew
Posted on Sun 17 May 2015 in OSX • 1 min read
Gah! A fellow at work had a Mac that refused to run Bash 4 as installed via Brew. He could run bash from a shell and get 4.x but no matter what we did to the shebang of our script it always ended up running Bash 3 as installed by Apple. We came up with this ugly bit:
#!/usr/bin/env bash
## ensure bash 4.x
if [[ ${BASH_VERSION} < 4.0 && \
-x /usr/local/bin/bash && \
$(/usr/local/bin/bash -c 'echo $BASH_VERSION') > 4.0 ]]; then
exec /usr/local/bin/bash ${0} ${@}
elif [[ ${BASH_VERSION} < 4.0 ]]; then
echo 'Mac FOOL. Try running: brew install bash coreutils'
exit 42
fi
It works on both Linux and Mac.