Installing Bash-2.05a

Estimated build time:           3 minutes
Estimated required disk space:  19 MB

Installation of Bash

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

Contents of bash-2.05a

Program Files

bash, sh (link to bash) and bashbug

Descriptions

bash

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

bashbug is a shell script to help the user compose and mail bug reports concerning bash in a standard format.

sh

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.

Dependencies

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
mawk: awk
sed: sed
sh-utils: basename, echo, expr, hostname, sleep, uname
texinfo: install-info
textutils: cat, tr, uniq