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[1770019] | 2 | <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd" [
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[673b0d8] | 3 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
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[3e36a78] | 4 | <!ENTITY % patches-entities SYSTEM "../patches.ent">
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[673b0d8] | 5 | %general-entities;
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[3e36a78] | 6 | %patches-entities;
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[673b0d8] | 7 | ]>
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[81fd230] | 8 | <sect1 id="ch-system-bash" role="wrap">
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[673b0d8] | 9 | <title>Bash-&bash-version;</title>
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| 10 | <?dbhtml filename="bash.html"?>
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| 11 |
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| 12 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-bash"><primary sortas="a-Bash">Bash</primary></indexterm>
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[6370fa6] | 13 |
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[a001133] | 14 | <sect2 role="package"><title/>
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[81fd230] | 15 | <para>The Bash package contains the Bourne-Again SHell.</para>
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[5888299] | 16 |
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[a001133] | 17 | <segmentedlist>
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| 18 | <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
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| 19 | <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
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[bdee2f5] | 20 | <seglistitem><seg>1.2 SBU</seg><seg>24.6 MB</seg></seglistitem>
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[a001133] | 21 | </segmentedlist>
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[673b0d8] | 22 |
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[81fd230] | 23 | <segmentedlist>
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[45992ae] | 24 | <segtitle>&dependencies;</segtitle>
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[81fd230] | 25 | <seglistitem><seg>Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, Gawk,
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| 26 | GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Ncurses, and Sed.</seg></seglistitem>
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| 27 | </segmentedlist>
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[a001133] | 28 | </sect2>
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[3554fa3a] | 29 |
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[a001133] | 30 | <sect2 role="installation">
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[73aedd1d] | 31 | <title>Installation of Bash</title>
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| 32 |
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[bdee2f5] | 33 | <para>If you downloaded the Bash documentation tarball and wish to install HTML
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| 34 | documentation, issue the following commands:</para>
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| 35 |
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| 36 | <screen><userinput>tar -zxf ../bash-doc-&bash-doc-version;.tar.gz &&
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| 37 | sed -i "s|htmldir = @htmldir@|htmldir = /usr/share/doc/bash-&bash-version;|" \
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| 38 | Makefile.in</userinput></screen>
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| 39 |
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[81fd230] | 40 | <para>The following patch fixes various issues, including a problem where Bash
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| 41 | will sometimes only show 33 characters on a line, then wrap to the next:</para>
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[3a0c307] | 42 |
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[3e36a78] | 43 | <screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&bash-fixes-patch;</userinput></screen>
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[3a0c307] | 44 |
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[81fd230] | 45 | <para>Bash also has issues when compiled against newer versions of Glibc. The
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| 46 | following patch resolves this problem:</para>
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[cd0f519] | 47 |
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[3e36a78] | 48 | <screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&bash-avoid_WCONTINUED-patch;</userinput></screen>
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[cd0f519] | 49 |
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[e8d07afc] | 50 | <para>Prepare Bash for compilation:</para>
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[73aedd1d] | 51 |
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[9dfc02f] | 52 | <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --bindir=/bin \
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[3125dfb] | 53 | --without-bash-malloc --with-installed-readline</userinput></screen>
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[73aedd1d] | 54 |
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[fc298480] | 55 | <para>The meaning of the configure options:</para>
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[81fd230] | 56 |
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| 57 | <variablelist>
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| 58 | <varlistentry>
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| 59 | <term><parameter>--with-installed-readline</parameter></term>
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[0687e9f] | 60 | <listitem><para>This option tells Bash to use the
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[f28e350] | 61 | <filename class="libraryfile">readline</filename> library that is already installed
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[81fd230] | 62 | on the system rather than using its own readline version.</para></listitem>
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| 63 | </varlistentry>
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| 64 | </variablelist>
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| 65 |
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[73aedd1d] | 66 | <para>Compile the package:</para>
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| 67 |
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| 68 | <screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
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| 69 |
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[673b0d8] | 70 | <para>To test the results, issue:
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[8a5f906] | 71 | <userinput>make tests</userinput>.</para>
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[73aedd1d] | 72 |
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| 73 | <para>Install the package:</para>
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| 74 |
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| 75 | <screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
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| 76 |
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[81fd230] | 77 | <para>Run the newly compiled <command>bash</command> program (replacing the one that is
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| 78 | currently being executed):</para>
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[673b0d8] | 79 |
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| 80 | <screen><userinput>exec /bin/bash --login +h</userinput></screen>
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[73aedd1d] | 81 |
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[81fd230] | 82 | <note><para>The parameters used make the <command>bash</command>
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| 83 | process an interactive login shell and continue to disable hashing so
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| 84 | that new programs are found as they become available.</para></note>
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| 85 |
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[73aedd1d] | 86 | </sect2>
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[6370fa6] | 87 |
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[5888299] | 88 |
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[c6cb3aa] | 89 | <sect2 id="contents-bash" role="content"><title>Contents of Bash</title>
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[673b0d8] | 90 |
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[81fd230] | 91 | <segmentedlist>
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| 92 | <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
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| 93 | <seglistitem><seg>bash, bashbug, and sh (link to bash)</seg></seglistitem>
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| 94 | </segmentedlist>
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| 95 |
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| 96 | <variablelist><bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
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| 97 | <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
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[8f97096] | 98 | <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
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[81fd230] | 99 |
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| 100 | <varlistentry id="bash">
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| 101 | <term><command>bash</command></term>
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| 102 | <listitem>
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| 103 | <para>A widely-used command interpreter; it performs many types of
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| 104 | expansions and substitutions on a given command line before executing
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| 105 | it, thus making this interpreter a powerful tool</para>
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| 106 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-bash bash"><primary sortas="b-bash">bash</primary></indexterm>
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| 107 | </listitem>
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| 108 | </varlistentry>
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| 109 |
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| 110 | <varlistentry id="bashbug">
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| 111 | <term><command>bashbug</command></term>
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| 112 | <listitem>
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[bc2136e] | 113 | <para>A shell script to help the user compose and mail standard formatted bug
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[f28e350] | 114 | reports concerning <command>bash</command></para>
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[81fd230] | 115 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-bash bashbug"><primary sortas="b-bashbug">bashbug</primary></indexterm>
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| 116 | </listitem>
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| 117 | </varlistentry>
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| 118 |
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| 119 | <varlistentry id="sh">
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| 120 | <term><command>sh</command></term>
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| 121 | <listitem>
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| 122 | <para>A symlink to the <command>bash</command> program; when invoked
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| 123 | as <command>sh</command>, <command>bash</command> tries to mimic the
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| 124 | startup behavior of historical versions of <command>sh</command> as
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| 125 | closely as possible, while conforming to the POSIX standard as well</para>
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| 126 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-bash sh"><primary sortas="b-sh">sh</primary></indexterm>
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| 127 | </listitem>
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| 128 | </varlistentry>
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| 129 | </variablelist>
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[673b0d8] | 130 |
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| 131 | </sect2>
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| 132 |
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| 133 | </sect1>
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[81fd230] | 134 |
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