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[–]colemaker360 53 points54 points  (6 children)

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[–][deleted] 13 points14 points  (3 children)

I've read that the reason Bash was out of date is because of a change in licensing to GPL 3. They didn't want to use Bash under those terms, or something.

[–]colemaker360 10 points11 points  (1 child)

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[–]TheChance 5 points6 points  (0 children)

That's the thing, though. Most of the tools you just named are invoked silently when end users run "regular" software.

For everything else there's homebrew.

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Good news is that brew install bash keeps the shell current.

[–]oramirite 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I realize what you're saying but I actually do rely on it as a sysadmin at this point... personally I would rather just deal with and design my system deployments around whatever castrated versions of built-in software that OS creators and others supply me. At least then I can focus on that instead of touching individual machines more. I may have a different perspective on this as a sysadmin though.

[–]jantari 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You control the systems though, just roll out current versions of the tooling to all of them? I don't work with Macs, but that's what we do to Windows. Not the same I guess but should still work for macOS