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BigJ1211 on Nov 26, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: The fish shell is amazing

I just checked it on my Mac and my Ubuntu server.

MacOS has version 3.2.57(1) Ubuntu has version 5.0.17(1)

Apparently Apple cites license concerns as the reason for not upgrading it. Don't know how valid that is.

License on version 3.2.57 is GPLv2 License on version 5.0.17 is GPLv3+

It's simple enough to update if you use homebrew.

`brew install bash`

Add the brew version of bash to the /private/etc/shells and change the shell.

mey on Nov 26, 2021 [–]

That's basically one of the developer setup steps, in addition to running through installing things like jq and yq. Point is, it was a significant enough of a delta (easily fixed) that we ran into compatibility issues with the scripts we wrote.

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