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<sect1 id="ch-system-bash" xreflabel="Bash" role="wrap">
<title>Bash-&bash-version;</title>
<?dbhtml filename="bash.html"?>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-bash"><primary sortas="a-Bash">Bash</primary></indexterm>
<sect2 role="package"><title/>
<para>The Bash package contains the Bourne-Again SHell.</para>
<segmentedlist>
<segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
<segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
<seglistitem><seg>1.2 SBU</seg><seg>27 MB</seg></seglistitem>
</segmentedlist>
<segmentedlist>
<segtitle>Bash installation depends on</segtitle>
<seglistitem><seg>Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, Gawk,
GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Ncurses, Sed.</seg></seglistitem>
</segmentedlist>
</sect2>
<sect2 role="installation">
<title>Installation of Bash</title>
<para>The following patch fixes a problem where Bash sometimes will
only show 33 characters on a line and then wraps to the next
line.</para>
<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../bash-&bash-version;-display_wrap-1.patch</userinput></screen>
<para>Prepare Bash for compilation:</para>
<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --bindir=/bin \
--without-bash-malloc --with-installed-readline</userinput></screen>
<para>The meaning of the configure option:</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><parameter>--with-installed-readline</parameter></term>
<listitem><para>This options tells Bash to use the
<filename>readline</filename> library that is already installed on the
system rather than using its own readline version.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
<para>Compile the package:</para>
<screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
<para>To test the results, issue:
<userinput>make tests</userinput>.</para>
<para>Install the package:</para>
<screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
<para>Run the newly compiled <command>bash</command> program (replacing the one that is
currently being executed):</para>
<screen><userinput>exec /bin/bash --login +h</userinput></screen>
<note><para>The parameters used make the <command>bash</command>
process an interactive login shell (which means the
<filename>/etc/profile</filename> file is read if it exists, and
whichever of the following three files are found first:
<filename>~/.bash_profile</filename>,
<filename>~/.bash_login</filename> or <filename>~/.profile</filename>)
and continue to disable hashing so that new programs are found as they
become available.</para></note>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="contents-bash" role="content"><title>Contents of Bash</title>
<segmentedlist>
<segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
<seglistitem><seg>bash, sh (link to bash) and bashbug</seg></seglistitem>
</segmentedlist>
<variablelist><bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short descriptions</bridgehead>
<?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
<varlistentry id="bash">
<term><command>bash</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>a widely-used command interpreter. It performs many types of
expansions and substitutions on a given command line before executing
it, thus making this interpreter a powerful tool.</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-bash bash"><primary sortas="b-bash">bash</primary></indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="bashbug">
<term><command>bashbug</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>a shell script to help the user compose and mail bug reports
concerning <command>bash</command> in a standard format.</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-bash bashbug"><primary sortas="b-bashbug">bashbug</primary></indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="sh">
<term><command>sh</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>a symlink to the bash program. When invoked
as <command>sh</command>, <command>bash</command> tries to mimic the
startup behavior of historical versions of <command>sh</command> as
closely as possible, while conforming to the POSIX standard as well.</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-bash sh"><primary sortas="b-sh">sh</primary></indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</sect2>
</sect1>