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bash

Install command: 
brew install bash

Bourne-Again SHell, a UNIX command interpreter

https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/

License: GPL-3.0-or-later

Development: Pull requests

Formula JSON API: /api/formula/bash.json

Formula code: bash.rb on GitHub

Bottle (binary package) installation support provided for:

macOS on
Apple Silicon		 golden gate ✅
tahoe ✅
sequoia ✅
Linux ARM64 ✅
x86_64 ✅

Current versions:

stable ✅ 5.3.20
head ⚡️ HEAD

Patches:

https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/bash/bash-5.3-patches/bash53-001
https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/bash/bash-5.3-patches/bash53-002
https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/bash/bash-5.3-patches/bash53-003
https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/bash/bash-5.3-patches/bash53-004
https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/bash/bash-5.3-patches/bash53-005
https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/bash/bash-5.3-patches/bash53-006
https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/bash/bash-5.3-patches/bash53-007
https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/bash/bash-5.3-patches/bash53-008
https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/bash/bash-5.3-patches/bash53-009
https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/bash/bash-5.3-patches/bash53-010
https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/bash/bash-5.3-patches/bash53-011
https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/bash/bash-5.3-patches/bash53-012
https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/bash/bash-5.3-patches/bash53-013
https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/bash/bash-5.3-patches/bash53-014
https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/bash/bash-5.3-patches/bash53-015
https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/bash/bash-5.3-patches/bash53-016
https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/bash/bash-5.3-patches/bash53-017
https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/bash/bash-5.3-patches/bash53-018
https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/bash/bash-5.3-patches/bash53-019
https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/bash/bash-5.3-patches/bash53-020

Depends on:

ncurses 6.6 Text-based UI library
readline 8.3.6 Library for command-line editing
gettext 1.0 GNU internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n) library

Binaries: bash, bashbug

DEFAULT_LOADABLE_BUILTINS_PATH: $HOMEBREW_PREFIX/lib/bash:/usr/local/lib/bash:/usr/lib/bash:/opt/local/lib/bash:/usr/pkg/lib/bash:/opt/pkg/lib/bash:.

GitHub Packages downloads:

Last 30 days1,302,962
Downloads23,298,125
Analytics install events (30 days)43,902
Downloads / install events (30 days)29.7×

Source: GitHub Packages, fetched 2026-11-12T00:51:30Z. Analytics dates: 2026-10-13 to 2026-11-12. Totals exclude downloads from Bintray before the migration to GitHub Packages. Downloads and install attempts measure different things; the difference does not count analytics opt-outs. Definitions and limitations.

Analytics:

30 days90 days365 days
Installs43,870111,357415,291
Installs (--HEAD)3289382
Installs on Request31,29980,082276,367
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Build Errors26
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