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brew is designed for single user installation, where the user has administrator privileges. The main challenge with using brew is that it does not work on the scale that MacAdmins require. While you would think this is a common desire, most pages I have found will simply point to Homebrew to download and install a newer bash version. dictionaries) and better auto-completion setup. New features include, among many other things, associated arrays (i.e. However, nothing is keeping you from downloading and installing the latest bash version. Apple does not include GPL v3 licensed tools with macOS.

The discrepancy comes from the fact that bash has been licensed as GPL v3 since version 4. GNU bash, version 3.2.57(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin18)Ĭopyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. The default bash on macOS is still bash v3: $ bash -version
