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| 2 | <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd" [
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| 3 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
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| 4 | %general-entities;
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| 5 | ]>
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[3be4d97] | 6 | <sect1 id="ch-system-bash" xreflabel="Bash">
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[673b0d8] | 7 | <title>Bash-&bash-version;</title>
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| 8 | <?dbhtml filename="bash.html"?>
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| 9 |
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| 10 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-bash"><primary sortas="a-Bash">Bash</primary></indexterm>
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[6370fa6] | 11 |
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[5888299] | 12 | <para>The Bash package contains the Bourne-Again SHell.</para>
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| 13 |
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[673b0d8] | 14 | <screen>Approximate build time: 1.2 SBU
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| 15 | Required disk space: 27 MB</screen>
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| 16 |
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| 17 | <para>Bash installation depends on: Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, Gawk,
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| 18 | GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Ncurses, Sed.</para>
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[3554fa3a] | 19 |
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[73aedd1d] | 20 |
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| 21 |
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| 22 | <sect2>
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| 23 | <title>Installation of Bash</title>
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| 24 |
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| 25 | <para>Bash has a number of bugs in it that cause it to not behave the
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[673b0d8] | 26 | way it is expected at times. Fix this behavior with the following
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[73aedd1d] | 27 | patch:</para>
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| 28 |
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[673b0d8] | 29 | <screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../bash-&bash-version;-2.patch</userinput></screen>
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[73aedd1d] | 30 |
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[f4993cf] | 31 | <para>Now prepare Bash for compilation:</para>
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[73aedd1d] | 32 |
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| 33 | <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --bindir=/bin</userinput></screen>
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| 34 |
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| 35 | <para>Compile the package:</para>
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| 36 |
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| 37 | <screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
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| 38 |
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[673b0d8] | 39 | <para>To test the results, issue:
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[8a5f906] | 40 | <userinput>make tests</userinput>.</para>
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[73aedd1d] | 41 |
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| 42 | <para>Install the package:</para>
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| 43 |
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| 44 | <screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
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| 45 |
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[673b0d8] | 46 | <para>Now run the newly compiled <command>bash</command> program (replacing the one you are currently executing):</para>
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| 47 |
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| 48 | <screen><userinput>exec /bin/bash --login +h</userinput></screen>
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[73aedd1d] | 49 |
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[673b0d8] | 50 | <para>Note that the parameters used make it an interactive login instance
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| 51 | (so /etc/profile is read, if it exists, and the first found
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| 52 | ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login or and ~/.profile) and continue to
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| 53 | disable hashing so that new programs are found as they become
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| 54 | available.</para>
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[73aedd1d] | 55 |
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| 56 | </sect2>
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[6370fa6] | 57 |
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[5888299] | 58 |
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[673b0d8] | 59 | <sect2 id="contents-bash"><title>Contents of Bash</title>
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| 60 |
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| 61 | <para><emphasis>Installed programs</emphasis>: bash, sh (link to bash) and
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| 62 | bashbug</para>
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| 63 |
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| 64 | </sect2>
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| 65 |
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| 66 |
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| 67 | <sect2><title>Short descriptions</title>
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[73aedd1d] | 68 |
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[673b0d8] | 69 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-bash bash"><primary sortas="b-bash">bash</primary></indexterm>
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| 70 | <para id="bash"><command>bash</command> is a widely-used command interpreter. It
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| 71 | performs many kinds of expansions and substitutions on a given command line
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| 72 | before executing it, thus making this interpreter a powerful tool.</para>
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| 73 |
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| 74 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-bash bashbug"><primary sortas="b-bashbug">bashbug</primary></indexterm>
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| 75 | <para id="bashbug"><command>bashbug</command> is a shell script to help the user
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| 76 | compose and mail bug reports concerning bash in a standard format.</para>
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| 77 |
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| 78 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-bash sh"><primary sortas="b-sh">sh</primary></indexterm>
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| 79 | <para id="sh"><command>sh</command> is a symlink to the bash program. When invoked
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| 80 | as sh, bash tries to mimic the startup behavior of historical versions of sh as
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| 81 | closely as possible, while conforming to the POSIX standard as well.</para>
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| 82 |
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| 83 | </sect2>
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| 84 |
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| 85 |
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| 86 |
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| 87 | </sect1>
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