extrakto should support zsh (without bash)?

[udiNur]

error: extrakto needs a newer Bash On macOS you need to install/update it with Homebrew.

[laktak]

I've no interest in zsh. Are the instructions not clear? You need to go to https://brew.sh

[AndydeCleyre]

I think a better form of this issue would be a request to drop Bash as a dependency, which could for example be achieved by porting the three Bash scripts to POSIX shell.

The current title makes it sound like you can't use extrakto with a Zsh session, which is untrue.

[ilyagr]

I think it'd help a lot simply if extrakto gave these instructions (or a link to them) and an error message when run on Mac OS's default bash. IIRC, it just showed a confusing blank screen as of a few months ago.

(OTOH, this may have been fixed judging by the screenshot, so perhaps my comment is out of date).

Installing bash is not hard; knowing that this is the problem is harder at the moment.

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I'm not sure how much work it would be to make extrakto run on POSIX sh, but I do know that even then the old version of bash that ships with Mac OS has some problems relative to /bin/dash (which is installed on Mac OS, but not the default).

[laktak]

On the mac, extrakto should display the following if it's not running on a supported bash:

error: extrakto needs a newer Bash
On macOS you need to install/update it with Homebrew.

A possible solution would be to convert the bash scripts to python as that is already a requirement and much easier to maintain than POSIX shell. Not sure if it's worth the effort though as installing Bash is very easy.

[AndydeCleyre]

@laktak I hear you about maintaining POSIX shell, but if such a PR were submitted, would it be considered? Would a Python port PR be considered?

[laktak]

Posix not so much for the reasons cited above. But I'd certainly consider a PR to replace Bash with Python.

[laktak]

I have a branch that replaces Bash with Python and posix sh where needed.

Please try it and let me know if it works.