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I have the following launchd agent:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version="1.0"> <dict> <key>Label</key> <string>bash-check</string> <key>Program</key> <string>/Users/spark/tmp/bash-check</string> <key>StandardOutPath</key> <string>/Users/laktak/bash-check.log</string> </dict> </plist>

With the following script bash-check:

#!/usr/local/bin/bash type bash bash --version

I cannot get it to use Bash 5 (/usr/local/bin/bash), the log from launchctl start bash-check is always:

bash is /bin/bash GNU bash, version 3.2.57(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin19) Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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  • What is the output of running echo $PATH in Terminal.app? Commented Sep 21, 2020 at 8:50
  • @NimeshNeema in what way would this influence the launchd agent? It does not use my environment. PATH includes /usr/local/bin in Terminal but not for the launchd agent. Commented Sep 21, 2020 at 9:02

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Your script uses type to find the first instance of bash within PATH and then calls exactly that instance. So if /bin is before /usr/local/bin (or, more likely, /usr/local/bin isn't in PATH) the macOS version of bash is found and executed.

To check the version of the running shell use

echo $BASH_VERSION

instead.

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