A great number of people write bash scripts for Linux. Most of these scripts start with #!/bin/bash. bash is not installed on FreeBSD by default. When installed, it is installed in /usr/local/bin/bash.

This post covers a few strategies for using scripts that start with #!/bin/bash on FreeBSD. I used one of these strategies in a previous post.

Software Versions

$ date -u "+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S +0000"
2016-02-20 17:04:07 +0000
$ uname -vm
FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #0 r287598: Thu Sep 10 14:45:48 JST 2015     root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MIRAGE_KERNEL  amd64

Instructions

First, bash needs to be installed.

portmaster shells/bash

The simplest option is to create a symlink from /usr/local/bin/bash to /bin/bash.

su
ln -s /usr/local/bin/bash /bin/bash

At this point, the following script should work without modification.

hello_world.sh

#!/bin/bash

echo "Hello, World!"

If you object to adding a symlink, the following command can be used to replace #!/bin/bash with the more portable #!/usr/bin/env bash.

FILENAME=hello_world.sh
sed -i '' 's:^#!/bin/bash:#!/usr/bin/env bash:' "${FILENAME}"

If a large number of files need to be changed, the following can be used to recursively patch all files in a directory.

DIRNAME=.
find "${DIRNAME}" -type f -print0 | xargs -0 sed -i '' 's:^#!/bin/bash:#!/usr/bin/env bash:'

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