On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 06:03:37PM -0600, Ray Sutton wrote: > Firstly apologies for not using bashbug, I'm having an issue on a > machine I'm rebuilding and don't have email readily available yet > > The issue is on a late 2013 MBP running MacOS 10.14.6 and > bash -version reports 5.0.11(1)-release (x86-64-apple-darwin18.6.0) > > The error is occuring in my .bash_profile and reports as > > -bash: declare: -g: invalid option > declare usage: declare [-afFirtx] [-p] [name[=value]...] > > Which does not agree with the man page. > > My work MBP (mid 2014) is running exactly the same version of both > MacOS and bash, the problem doesn't occur there > > In both cases bash was installed via brew. > > The behavior seems consistent with the original bash 3 declare > statement persisting after the bash 5 install which seems unlikely. > > Any Advice on how to fix this issue? > > Thanks > > Ray Sutton >
It seems likely that you are in fact running /bin/bash (3.2.57(1)-release, from the macOS base system) instead of /usr/local/bin/bash (5.0.11(1)-release, current bash from Homebrew). How do you start your bash login shell?
