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[3f8be484]1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
[aa18ac0]2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
[3f8be484]4 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
5 %general-entities;
6]>
7
8<sect1 id="ch-system-bash" role="wrap">
9 <?dbhtml filename="bash.html"?>
10
11 <title>Bash-&bash-version;</title>
12
13 <indexterm zone="ch-system-bash">
14 <primary sortas="a-Bash">Bash</primary>
15 </indexterm>
16
17 <sect2 role="package">
18 <title/>
19
20 <para>The Bash package contains the Bourne-Again SHell.</para>
21
22 </sect2>
23
24 <sect2 role="installation">
25 <title>Installation of Bash</title>
26
27 <para os="a">If you downloaded the Bash documentation tarball and wish to
28 install HTML documentation, issue the following commands:</para>
29
[9383fe4]30<screen os="b"><userinput>tar -xvf ../bash-doc-&bash-doc-version;.tar.gz</userinput></screen>
[5b72bba]31
[6f9ab64]32 <para os="p1">The following patch contains updates from the maintainer. The
[dd10a75]33 maintainer of Bash only releases these patches to fix serious issues:</para>
[6f9ab64]34
35<screen os="p2"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&bash-fixes-patch;</userinput></screen>
36
[3f8be484]37 <para os="g">Prepare Bash for compilation:</para>
38
[e0e40d3]39<screen os="h"><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --bindir=/bin \
[3f8be484]40 --without-bash-malloc --with-installed-readline</userinput></screen>
41
[e0e40d3]42 <variablelist os="i">
[3f8be484]43 <title>The meaning of the configure option:</title>
44
45 <varlistentry>
46 <term><parameter>--with-installed-readline</parameter></term>
47 <listitem>
48 <para>This option tells Bash to use the
49 <filename class="libraryfile">readline</filename> library that is
50 already installed on the system rather than using its own readline
51 version.</para>
52 </listitem>
53 </varlistentry>
54 </variablelist>
55
[e0e40d3]56 <para os="j">Compile the package:</para>
[3f8be484]57
[e0e40d3]58<screen os="k"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
[3f8be484]59
[e0e40d3]60 <para os="l">To test the results, issue:
[adb2d7f]61 <userinput>make tests</userinput>.</para>
[3f8be484]62
[e0e40d3]63 <para os="m">Install the package:</para>
[3f8be484]64
[9383fe4]65<screen os="n"><userinput>make htmldir=/usr/share/doc/bash-&bash-version; install</userinput></screen>
[3f8be484]66
[e0e40d3]67 <para os="o">Run the newly compiled <command>bash</command> program (replacing
[3f8be484]68 the one that is currently being executed):</para>
69
[0f3854e]70<screen os="p" role="nodump"><userinput>exec /bin/bash --login +h</userinput></screen>
[3f8be484]71
[e0e40d3]72 <note os="q">
[3f8be484]73 <para>The parameters used make the <command>bash</command>
74 process an interactive login shell and continue to disable hashing so
75 that new programs are found as they become available.</para>
76 </note>
77
78 </sect2>
79
80 <sect2 id="contents-bash" role="content">
81 <title>Contents of Bash</title>
82
83 <segmentedlist>
84 <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
85
86 <seglistitem>
87 <seg>bash, bashbug, and sh (link to bash)</seg>
88 </seglistitem>
89 </segmentedlist>
90
91 <variablelist>
92 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
93 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
94 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
95
96 <varlistentry id="bash">
97 <term><command>bash</command></term>
98 <listitem>
99 <para>A widely-used command interpreter; it performs many types of
100 expansions and substitutions on a given command line before executing
101 it, thus making this interpreter a powerful tool</para>
102 <indexterm zone="ch-system-bash bash">
103 <primary sortas="b-bash">bash</primary>
104 </indexterm>
105 </listitem>
106 </varlistentry>
107
108 <varlistentry id="bashbug">
109 <term><command>bashbug</command></term>
110 <listitem>
111 <para>A shell script to help the user compose and mail standard
112 formatted bug reports concerning <command>bash</command></para>
113 <indexterm zone="ch-system-bash bashbug">
114 <primary sortas="b-bashbug">bashbug</primary>
115 </indexterm>
116 </listitem>
117 </varlistentry>
118
119 <varlistentry id="sh">
120 <term><command>sh</command></term>
121 <listitem>
122 <para>A symlink to the <command>bash</command> program; when invoked
123 as <command>sh</command>, <command>bash</command> tries to mimic the
124 startup behavior of historical versions of <command>sh</command> as
125 closely as possible, while conforming to the POSIX standard as
126 well</para>
127 <indexterm zone="ch-system-bash sh">
128 <primary sortas="b-sh">sh</primary>
129 </indexterm>
130 </listitem>
131 </varlistentry>
132
133 </variablelist>
134
135 </sect2>
136
137</sect1>
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