How to Update Bash on Red Hat and CentOS

• These instructions are intended specifically for updating Bash on Red Hat and CentOS.
• I’ll be working from both a Liquid Web Core Managed CentOS 6 server and a Liquid Web Self Managed CentOS 7 server, and I’ll be logged in as root.

yum clean all

Updating Bash is as simple as running just one command:

yum -y update bash

Optionally, it is possible to update all of the installed packages at once with the following command:

yum -y update