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A mac Installer package for Bash 5.2.15 release

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This script simply automates the process of downloading, building, and packaging bash for macOS.

The resulting package installer will install bash in /usr/local/bin and the supporting files in /usr/local.

This script will change the name of the bash binary installed in /usr/local/bin/ to bash5 to avoid any naming conflicts with the built-in bash v3 in /bin. This also allows you to have different builds installed on the same system.

The postinstall script add a symbolic link, so you basically can set #!/usr/bin/env bash interpreter argument to your scripts, and won't have to specify #!/usr/local/bin/bash5

Eventually you want probably make it the default interpreter argument, by typing this in your terminal chsh -s /usr/local/bin/bash5

The path to the bash binary will be added to /etc/shells on the target system, so that users can use chsh to switch their default shell.

Thanks to Armin Briegel for suggestions