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Not to be confused with the Beer Bash at WWDC.

Bash, a contraction of Bourne Again SHell, is GNU's command-line interpreter for Unix, included by default with Mac OS X through macOS Mojave (10.14).

Description

Bash is a POSIX-compliant shell with full Bourne shell syntax, and some C shell commands built in. The Bourne Again Shell supports Emacs-style command-line editing, job control, functions, and on-line help. Written by Brian Fox at the University of California, Santa Barbara, version 1.14.1 includes a yacc parser, the interpreter, and documentation.[1]

Bash on Mac OS X

Bash has been the default command-line shell for Mac OS X since its NeXTSTEP origins. In 2019, Apple replaced bash with zsh in new installations of macOS Catalina (10.15). Upgrades to Catalina will retain the user's existing installation of bash with a notification in case the user would like to switch to zsh.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Bash at the Free On-Line Dictionary Of Computing. 1994-07-15.
  2. ↑ Resources for Adapting to zsh in Catalina by Josh Centers, TidBITS. 2019-12-08.

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