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brown9-2 on Oct 2, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Hacker's Guide to Setting Up Your Mac

The next thing you should do is update the unix tools you already have on your mac. This is more relevant than ever since the recent "Shellshock" debacle.

How many developers are launching bash scripts with environment variables defined by third parties?

jayrhynas on Oct 2, 2014 [–]

not to mention that many scripts & apps often hardcode the system bash (i.e. /bin/bash) so they won't use the homebrew version

dekz on Oct 2, 2014 | [–]

Which is why you symlink the homebrew version ontop of /bin/bash!

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