

Just because Apple makes a move to support a more modern technology, doesn't mean they are going resect it from their base code so it's not longer available in future versions. You can use it as a client (connect to an old server with AFP support), but you cannot share a folder from Mojave/Catalina with AFP. AFP is no longer supported for file sharing.cron is deprecated meaning that while still supported, there's no more development on it and admins/users should start migrating to the new tool(s) ( launchd).

It's also important to note that there is a difference between deprecated and no longer supported. We're in Catalina now an cron is still around and fully functional. As for anecdotal evidence, I cite cron it has been deprecated since Snow Leopard in favor of launchd. If none of your commands are working correctly, make sure you have set the file correctly, and has the correct encoding (CR/LF). There's no "official word" on something that's not even projected to happen. bash: ls: command not found bash: vi: command not found bash: touch: command not found bash: mkdir: command not found bash: gerp: command not found bash: sudo: command not found bash: env: command not found. Is there any official word out there regarding this? At the very least (.and FWIW), any anecdotal experience coming from beta installations? The improvements offered by Bash include: command-line editing, unlimited size. Apple switched to ZSH for this same reason. In addition, most sh scripts can be run by Bash without modification.
Enable bash on mac license#
The reason that Bash is "so old" is because of the GPL license version. It is still current and the version that ships with macOS is perfectly fine. ZSH is the default for shell for new users in Catalina, however, for existing users, the Bash shell remains the users' current shell.īash is not deprecated in any way. There's some misconceptions that need to be cleared up: Set posixPath to quoted form of POSIX path of iĭo shell script "some_command " & posixPathĪppleScripts can be created using "Utilities / Script Editor" and then saved as type= application.In Catalina, Apple made ZSH the default shell, however, macOS retained the (now deprecated) Bash. $ my_shell_script.sh Enabling Drag and drop onto a Shell scriptĪ short AppleScript can be used that when run, will execute a Unix command/script passing the filename, you can drop also drop multiple files at once: on open filelist With the script saved in the folder, you can now run it with just: bash_profile file to include export PATH="$PATH:~/scripts" that will keep the "scripts" folder in your path every time you log in. If you will be writing a few shell scripts then it's worth creating a folder, perhaps called "scripts" and adding that to the system path: If you get an error like " #!/bin/bash: No such file or directory", that is typically an indication that the File encoding or line endings are wrong, use an editor like VI or BB Edit (shows line encodings at the bottom of the edit window) the script file should be Unicode (UTF-8) and Unix (LF) line endings Making a script available everywhere You can now run the script by prefixing it with. Next you need to make the script executable with chmod The # character indicates a comment, so the shebang line is ignored by bash when running the script. The first line contains a shebang #! followed by the path to the shell, in this case bash - this acts as an interpreter directive and ensures that the script is executed under the correct shell. A shell script is an ASCII text file containing one or more commands. When you want to run functions from your command line, this is a must-have.
