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pstuart on Oct 22, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: OS X 10.9 Mavericks: The Ars Technica Review

Too bad they didn't bother to upgrade bash. Bash 4 is nice to have on tap.

krallja on Oct 23, 2013 | [–]

They can't, because Bash 4 is GPLv3. Apple's lawyers will not allow any GPLv3 code out the door.

hdevalence on Oct 23, 2013 | | [–]

They certainly can. They choose not to.

dijit on Oct 22, 2013 | [–]

GNU bash, version 4.2.45(2)-release (i386-apple-darwin13.0.0)

I think I used home-brew to get it. but, if you want it, it's trivial to get installed nicely

> # brew install bash

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