Estimated build time: 3 minutes Estimated required disk space: 19 MB |
Install Bash by running the following commands:
./configure --prefix=/usr --with-curses \ --bindir=/bin && make && make install && cd /bin && ln -sf bash sh && exec /bin/bash --login |
bash, sh (link to bash) and bashbug
Bash is the Bourne-Again SHell, which is a widely used command interpreter on Unix systems. Bash is a program that reads from standard input, the keyboard. A user types something and the program will evaluate what he has typed and do something with it, like running a program.
bashbug is a shell script to help the user compose and mail bug reports concerning bash in a standard format.
sh is a symlink to the bash program. When invoked as sh, bash tries to mimic the startup behavior of historical versions of sh as closely as possible, while conforming to the POSIX standard as well.
Bash-2.05a needs the following to be installed:
bash: bash, sh
binutils: ar, as, ld, ranlib, size
diffutils: cmp
fileutils: chmod, cp, install, ln, ls, mkdir, mv, rm
gcc: cc, cc1, collect2, cpp0, gcc
grep: egrep, grep
make: make
gawk: awk
sed: sed
sh-utils: basename, echo, expr, hostname, sleep, uname
texinfo: install-info
textutils: cat, tr, uniq