mac 10.15 output: unknown terminal "xterm"

[arzzen]

mac 10.15 output: unknown terminal "xterm"

[tomice]

While I cannot upgrade to 10.15 yet due to some software incompatibility issues I have, I believe this is most likely an error due to how the $TERM variable is set. If you do an echo $TERM, what does it say?

[arzzen]

@windard please, what is your output of command echo $TERM (is still relevant this issue?)

[kankowski]

On macOS 10.15, I experience the following error:

$ git-quick-stats
/usr/local/bin/git-quick-stats: line 26: ${_merges,,}: bad substitution

How could I get around it? Thanks.

[tomice]

Sorry, that's a Bash 4.0-ism. OS X runs an old version of Bash, and I forgot lowercase variable expansion didn't occur until 4.0. It's not necessary, as it was meant to be a quick string sanitization effort.

To fix it, remove the two commas from that variable on lines 26 and 28.

I'll make a fix when I get some time later.

[tomice]

Given the lack of feedback from the OP on the issue with the $TERM variable, I vote we close this as I have been unable to replicate this issue. I have tried the following on macOS 10.14:

TERM=xterm-256color runs successfully
TERM=xterm runs successfully
TERM="" reports TERM environment variable not set
TERM="unknown" reports 'unknown': I need something more specific
TERM="foo" reports terminals database is inaccessible

The following link seems to indicate it is a macOS issue regarding corruption or an incorrectly set $TERM variable: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/26662/unknown-terminal-xterm-256color