Mark J. Reed wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Peter O'Gorman <pe...@pogma.com> wrote:
>> On 11/11/2009 01:55 PM, drjl...@netonecom.net wrote:
>>> Can someone on this list help me with the following problem with bash?
>>>
>>> A simple bash script of mine reads:
>>>
>>> #!/bin/bash
>>> echo {1..3}
>>>
>>> When I run it, it prints {1..3}, not 1 2 3 as I expect. My version of bash
>>> is 4.0.33(1), and running "ls -l /bin/bash" gives
>>>
>>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 581636 Dec 13 2006 /bin/bash
>
> /bin/bash is not 4.0.33(1), then. 4.0.33 is much more recent than
> 2006! You must have be running a different bash when you check the
> version - /sw/bin/bash, maybe? If you put that in your script (e.g.
> #!/sw/bin/bash instead of #!/bin/bash), it should work.
>
> Or you should update to a newer version of OS X. Snow Leopard still
> doesn't have 4.x in /bin, but it does have 3.2.48, which is new enough
> for brace ranges to work.
In Leopard's /bin/bash, which is version 3.2.17 and was last updated in
2008 with 10.5.3, it works, too. Jonathan's /bin/bash from December 2006
is Tiger's bash version 2.05b.0.
--
Martin
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