How to Install bash on FreeBSD 12

Bash is the shell, or command language interpreter, for the GNU operating system.Bash is quite portable. It currently runs on nearly every version of Unix and a few other operating systems.

In this tutorial, we will install bash and set it as default shell

Step 1: install bash

we can use any of the two methods below:

i. using pkg to install bash:

# pkg install bash

ii. using port collection:

# cd /usr/ports/shells/bash
# make && make clean

Step 2: Set bash as default shell:

i. locate binary path of bash by running the following command

 which bash 

output should be similar to below:
/usr/local/bin/bash

ii. We then change default shell to bash by executing the following:

chsh -s /usr/local/bin/bash <username>