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.

[–] computergeek125@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] paperplane@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] computergeek125@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Oh thank goodness, that was one of my main complaints with the system. Did they ever get around to requiring sudo like Macports (and any other reasonable system level packages manager on BSD/Linux)?

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] computergeek125@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Gotcha. Yeah low level Unix has some weird stuff going on sometimes.

[–] BatmanAoD@programming.dev 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Did you read the linked Q&A?

What do you get if you run /bin/bash --version?

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] BatmanAoD@programming.dev 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.