Pretty broken in OSX about pureline HOT 3 OPEN

I hear ya. I too was surprised that OSX's bundled Bash is from 2007. You'd think they'd refresh it a little. 🤷‍♂️

You can close this issue if you want. I understand it's a bit of an undertaking to support such an old version of Bash.

Could you at the very least add a line in the INSTALL section of your main README to mention "Bash version 4+ is required."? I think it'll help prevent further "it's broken!" tickets like mine.

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Yes, PureLine needs Bash v4 minimum bescause it uses associative arrays. The issue was first mentionein in Issue 7. I don't have access to OSX, but from what I read, bash can be upgraded using Homebrew. I know its not a perfect solution.

It does niggle me that PureLine does not work without effort on OSX, but since bash is now at v5.1+ I'm somewhat reluctant to put time into compatibilty with v3.2. Especially when v4 has been out for 12 years being released in 2009.

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Part of the reason why bash is so old on macOS might be because they are trying to force a migration to zsh.

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