Ok, yeah, I can see that there would be times this could matter but like 90% of the time this wouldn’t have mattered for my use case afaik. I didn’t realize you couldn’t backup the old copy in /bin and symlink to the brew one from there. In fact I thought I did do that long ago.
If it’s anything like when I used a Mac regularly 7y ago, Homebrew doesn’t install to /bin, it installs to /usr/local/bin, which only works for scripts that use env in their shell “marker” (if you don’t call it directly with the shell). You’re just putting a higher bash in the path, not truly updating the one that comes with the system.
That’s mostly still true, with the small caveat that the default prefix on arm64 macOS is /opt/homebrew rather than /usr/local, so you might have to add it explicitly to your PATH
It’s been a long time since I even did this, and I’ve gotten at least one new machine since. I got several replies so I’ll just link my original response: https://lemmy.world/comment/11431853
It’s been a long time since I even did this, and I’ve gotten at least one new machine since. I got several replies so I’ll just link my original response: https://lemmy.world/comment/11431853
I’m not sure what you mean. I have updated bash with a single homebrew command.
The poster you’re replying to was not referring to 3rd party software in user space.
Ok, yeah, I can see that there would be times this could matter but like 90% of the time this wouldn’t have mattered for my use case afaik. I didn’t realize you couldn’t backup the old copy in /bin and symlink to the brew one from there. In fact I thought I did do that long ago.
If it’s anything like when I used a Mac regularly 7y ago, Homebrew doesn’t install to /bin, it installs to /usr/local/bin, which only works for scripts that use env in their shell “marker” (if you don’t call it directly with the shell). You’re just putting a higher bash in the path, not truly updating the one that comes with the system.
That’s mostly still true, with the small caveat that the default prefix on arm64 macOS is /opt/homebrew rather than /usr/local, so you might have to add it explicitly to your PATH
It’s been a long time since I even did this, and I’ve gotten at least one new machine since. I got several replies so I’ll just link my original response: https://lemmy.world/comment/11431853
Gotcha. Yeah low level Unix has some weird stuff going on sometimes.
Did you read the linked Q&A?
What do you get if you run
/bin/bash --version?It’s been a long time since I even did this, and I’ve gotten at least one new machine since. I got several replies so I’ll just link my original response: https://lemmy.world/comment/11431853
Just because it doesn’t matter for most users doesn’t mean it isn’t a real limitation. I acknowledged as much in my original comment.