The Bash Debug Extension, as of version 0.3.9, requires at least Bash 4.* or Bash 5.* to be installed. macOS natively has Bash 3.2 installed.
A convenient way to install Bash is with Homebrew. If Homebrew has not previously been installed, it can be installed as follows. From a terminal session, invoke the following to install Homebrew:
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
The Homebrew installer provides the following steps to finalize the installation for the current user:
- Run these commands in your terminal to add Homebrew to your PATH:
echo >> /Users/<username>/.zprofile
echo 'eval "$(/opt/homebrew/bin/brew shellenv)"' >> /Users/<username>/.zprofile
eval "$(/opt/homebrew/bin/brew shellenv)"
Install Bash (currently 5.3.9) using Homebrew:
brew install bash
To run the latest Bash, specify the pathBash attribute in launch.json as follows:
{
"version": "0.2.0",
"configurations": [
{
"type": "bashdb",
"request": "launch",
"name": "Bash-Debug (simplest configuration)",
"program": "${file}",
"pathBash": "/opt/homebrew/bin/bash"
}
]
}
