[673b0d8] | 1 | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
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[1fe35e1] | 2 | <!DOCTYPE section [
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[673b0d8] | 3 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
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| 4 | %general-entities;
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| 5 | ]>
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[1fe35e1] | 6 | <section xmlns="http://docbook.org/docbook-ng"
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| 7 | xml:id="ch-system-bash" xreflabel="Bash" role="wrap">
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[6a0e6f3] | 8 | <title>Bash-&bash-version;</title>
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[673b0d8] | 9 | <?dbhtml filename="bash.html"?>
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| 10 |
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| 11 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-bash"><primary sortas="a-Bash">Bash</primary></indexterm>
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[6370fa6] | 12 |
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[6a0e6f3] | 13 | <section role="package"><title/>
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[5888299] | 14 | <para>The Bash package contains the Bourne-Again SHell.</para>
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| 15 |
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[a001133] | 16 | <segmentedlist>
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| 17 | <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
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| 18 | <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
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| 19 | <seglistitem><seg>1.2 SBU</seg><seg>27 MB</seg></seglistitem>
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| 20 | </segmentedlist>
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[673b0d8] | 21 |
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[a001133] | 22 | <segmentedlist>
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| 23 | <segtitle>Bash installation depends on</segtitle>
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| 24 | <seglistitem><seg>Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, Gawk,
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| 25 | GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Ncurses, Sed.</seg></seglistitem>
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| 26 | </segmentedlist>
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[1fe35e1] | 27 | </section>
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[3554fa3a] | 28 |
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[1fe35e1] | 29 | <section role="installation">
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[6a0e6f3] | 30 | <title>Installation of Bash</title>
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[73aedd1d] | 31 |
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[51504be] | 32 | <para>The following patch fixes various issues. Including a problem where Bash
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| 33 | sometimes will only show 33 characters on a line and then wraps to the next line.</para>
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[3a0c307] | 34 |
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[51504be] | 35 | <screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../bash-&bash-version;-fixes-1.patch</userinput></screen>
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[3a0c307] | 36 |
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[cd0f519] | 37 | <para>Bash also has issues when compiled against newer versions of glibc. The
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| 38 | following patch resolves this problem:</para>
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| 39 |
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| 40 | <screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../bash-&bash-version;-avoid_WCONTINUED-1.patch</userinput></screen>
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| 41 |
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[e8d07afc] | 42 | <para>Prepare Bash for compilation:</para>
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[73aedd1d] | 43 |
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[9dfc02f] | 44 | <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --bindir=/bin \
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[3125dfb] | 45 | --without-bash-malloc --with-installed-readline</userinput></screen>
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[73aedd1d] | 46 |
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| 47 | <para>Compile the package:</para>
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| 48 |
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| 49 | <screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
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| 50 |
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[673b0d8] | 51 | <para>To test the results, issue:
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[8a5f906] | 52 | <userinput>make tests</userinput>.</para>
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[73aedd1d] | 53 |
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| 54 | <para>Install the package:</para>
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| 55 |
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| 56 | <screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
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| 57 |
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[673b0d8] | 58 | <para>Now run the newly compiled <command>bash</command> program (replacing the one you are currently executing):</para>
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| 59 |
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| 60 | <screen><userinput>exec /bin/bash --login +h</userinput></screen>
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[73aedd1d] | 61 |
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[3c928f1] | 62 | <note><para>The parameters used make it an interactive login instance
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| 63 | (so <filename>/etc/profile</filename> is read, if it exists, and the first found
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| 64 | <filename>~/.bash_profile</filename>, <filename>~/.bash_login</filename> or
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| 65 | and <filename>~/.profile</filename>) and continue to
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[673b0d8] | 66 | disable hashing so that new programs are found as they become
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[3c928f1] | 67 | available.</para></note>
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[73aedd1d] | 68 |
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[1fe35e1] | 69 | </section>
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[6370fa6] | 70 |
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[5888299] | 71 |
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[6a0e6f3] | 72 | <section xml:id="contents-bash" role="content"><title>Contents of Bash</title>
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[673b0d8] | 73 |
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[c6cb3aa] | 74 | <segmentedlist>
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| 75 | <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
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| 76 | <seglistitem><seg>bash, sh (link to bash) and bashbug</seg></seglistitem>
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| 77 | </segmentedlist>
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[673b0d8] | 78 |
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[c6cb3aa] | 79 | <variablelist><title>Short descriptions</title>
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[73aedd1d] | 80 |
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[1fe35e1] | 81 | <varlistentry xml:id="bash">
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[b8a819f] | 82 | <term><command>bash</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 83 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 84 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-bash bash"><primary sortas="b-bash">bash</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 85 | <para>is a widely-used command interpreter. It
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[673b0d8] | 86 | performs many kinds of expansions and substitutions on a given command line
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| 87 | before executing it, thus making this interpreter a powerful tool.</para>
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[c6cb3aa] | 88 | </listitem>
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| 89 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 90 |
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[1fe35e1] | 91 | <varlistentry xml:id="bashbug">
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[b8a819f] | 92 | <term><command>bashbug</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 93 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 94 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-bash bashbug"><primary sortas="b-bashbug">bashbug</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 95 | <para>is a shell script to help the user
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[3c928f1] | 96 | compose and mail bug reports concerning <command>bash</command> in a standard format.</para>
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[c6cb3aa] | 97 | </listitem>
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| 98 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 99 |
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[1fe35e1] | 100 | <varlistentry xml:id="sh">
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[b8a819f] | 101 | <term><command>sh</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 102 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 103 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-bash sh"><primary sortas="b-sh">sh</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 104 | <para>is a symlink to the bash program. When invoked
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[3c928f1] | 105 | as <command>sh</command>, <command>bash</command> tries to mimic the
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| 106 | startup behavior of historical versions of <command>sh</command> as
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[673b0d8] | 107 | closely as possible, while conforming to the POSIX standard as well.</para>
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[c6cb3aa] | 108 | </listitem>
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| 109 | </varlistentry>
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| 110 | </variablelist>
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[673b0d8] | 111 |
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[1fe35e1] | 112 | </section>
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[673b0d8] | 113 |
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[1fe35e1] | 114 | </section>
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