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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
[6f9ab64]27 <para os="p1">The following patch contains updates from the maintainer. The
[dd10a75]28 maintainer of Bash only releases these patches to fix serious issues:</para>
[6f9ab64]29
[d849dd4]30<screen os="p2"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&bash-branch_update-patch;</userinput></screen>
[c822ddc]31
[663f8a7]32 <para os="a">Prepare Bash for compilation:</para>
[d849dd4]33
[663f8a7]34<screen os="b"><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --bindir=/bin \
[3f8be484]35 --without-bash-malloc --with-installed-readline</userinput></screen>
36
[663f8a7]37 <variablelist os="c">
[3f8be484]38 <title>The meaning of the configure option:</title>
39
40 <varlistentry>
41 <term><parameter>--with-installed-readline</parameter></term>
42 <listitem>
43 <para>This option tells Bash to use the
44 <filename class="libraryfile">readline</filename> library that is
45 already installed on the system rather than using its own readline
46 version.</para>
47 </listitem>
48 </varlistentry>
49 </variablelist>
50
[663f8a7]51 <para os="d">Compile the package:</para>
[3f8be484]52
[663f8a7]53<screen os="e"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
[3f8be484]54
[663f8a7]55 <para os="f">To test the results, issue:
[adb2d7f]56 <userinput>make tests</userinput>.</para>
[3f8be484]57
[663f8a7]58 <para os="g">Install the package:</para>
[3f8be484]59
[663f8a7]60<screen os="h"><userinput>make htmldir=/usr/share/doc/bash-&bash-version; install</userinput></screen>
[3f8be484]61
[663f8a7]62 <para os="i">Run the newly compiled <command>bash</command> program (replacing
[3f8be484]63 the one that is currently being executed):</para>
64
[663f8a7]65<screen os="j" role="nodump"><userinput>exec /bin/bash --login +h</userinput></screen>
[3f8be484]66
[663f8a7]67 <note os="k">
[3f8be484]68 <para>The parameters used make the <command>bash</command>
69 process an interactive login shell and continue to disable hashing so
70 that new programs are found as they become available.</para>
71 </note>
72
73 </sect2>
74
75 <sect2 id="contents-bash" role="content">
76 <title>Contents of Bash</title>
77
78 <segmentedlist>
79 <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
[61ad0b7f]80 <segtitle>Installed directory</segtitle>
[3f8be484]81
82 <seglistitem>
83 <seg>bash, bashbug, and sh (link to bash)</seg>
[61ad0b7f]84 <seg>/usr/share/doc/bash-&bash-version;</seg>
[3f8be484]85 </seglistitem>
86 </segmentedlist>
87
88 <variablelist>
89 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
90 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
91 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
92
93 <varlistentry id="bash">
94 <term><command>bash</command></term>
95 <listitem>
96 <para>A widely-used command interpreter; it performs many types of
97 expansions and substitutions on a given command line before executing
98 it, thus making this interpreter a powerful tool</para>
99 <indexterm zone="ch-system-bash bash">
100 <primary sortas="b-bash">bash</primary>
101 </indexterm>
102 </listitem>
103 </varlistentry>
104
105 <varlistentry id="bashbug">
106 <term><command>bashbug</command></term>
107 <listitem>
108 <para>A shell script to help the user compose and mail standard
109 formatted bug reports concerning <command>bash</command></para>
110 <indexterm zone="ch-system-bash bashbug">
111 <primary sortas="b-bashbug">bashbug</primary>
112 </indexterm>
113 </listitem>
114 </varlistentry>
115
116 <varlistentry id="sh">
117 <term><command>sh</command></term>
118 <listitem>
119 <para>A symlink to the <command>bash</command> program; when invoked
120 as <command>sh</command>, <command>bash</command> tries to mimic the
121 startup behavior of historical versions of <command>sh</command> as
122 closely as possible, while conforming to the POSIX standard as
123 well</para>
124 <indexterm zone="ch-system-bash sh">
125 <primary sortas="b-sh">sh</primary>
126 </indexterm>
127 </listitem>
128 </varlistentry>
129
130 </variablelist>
131
132 </sect2>
133
134</sect1>
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