ptls error on macos about ptsh HOT 6 CLOSED

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Does it happen all the time?

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This issue occurs because macOS ships with an outdated version of bash. Run brew install bash to get the latest version, then you won't get that error.

But you will still get problems running ls and touch, the other commands included with ptsh will run fine.
touch doesn't work because macOS ships with the BSD version of readlink and not the GNU version. You can install the coreutils package using brew install coreutils and then replace readlink with greadlink in the file pttouch, which you can get to via $HOME/.local/bin/pttouch. Replace readlink with greadlink on line 29.

For the ls command it only displays the file icon for some reason. I haven't figured out how to fix it yet. Here is an image of what it currently shows:

See comment below

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ls probably writes something to stderr, but stderr is disabled.
Remove 2>/dev/null from line 14 and 43 in ptls and show the output.

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I think it's problem with --group-directories-first in line 43

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I just checked and its simply because macOS doesn't use GNU core utils, so there are some commands that don't work. The problem with ls was because its using the BSD version of ls which doesn't take in the argument -Q.
So the easiest way to fix this issue is this:

1. Install latest version of bash using brew install bash
2. Install core utils using brew install coreutils
3. Core utils provides the same commands prefixed with a 'g', so to use the GNU variants instead of the BSD variants, you can add the gnubin directory to your path by putting export PATH="/usr/local/opt/coreutils/libexec/gnubin:$PATH", into your bashrc or zshrc.

Everything should work fine after that. No need to edit any of the ptsh files.

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