topic Re: bash depot in Operating System - HP-UX

bash depot

centurion — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 08:36:19 GMT

where can I download a bash depot file for hpux 11.11?

thanks for help ..

Re: bash depot

Geoff Wild — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 08:38:04 GMT

Right here:

http://hpux.ee.ualberta.ca/hppd/hpux/Shells/bash-3.2/

Rgds...Geoff

Re: bash depot

Pete Randall — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 08:40:38 GMT

Why would you want a bash shell? The Posix shell will do anything that bash can. If you insist on a bash shell, just make sure that you do not change root's shell to bash. You can end up with a un-bootable system.

Pete

Re: bash depot

James R. Ferguson — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 08:42:36 GMT

Hi:

See here:

http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Shells/bash-3.2/

Whatever you do, however, don't change 'root's default shell. Since during the early stages of startup, only the root filesystem is mounted, you must run '/sbin/sh' and not a shell that resides in '/usr'. The '/sbin/sh' has no need of any of the dynamic libraries that live in '/usr'. Other shells do, however.

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: bash depot

centurion — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 08:49:19 GMT

@Geoff and James:
Thanks for the link, I will download the file..

@Pete:
Our customer would like to work with the bash..

thanks all for the quick help!!

Re: bash depot

Ralph Grothe — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 09:16:37 GMT

You also can get a Bash as part of the HP-UX Linux porting kit
http://h20293.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=B9891AA

Though the HP Posix shell is sufficient, it isn't quite true what Pete said.
The Bash has a couple of features that the standard HP shell lacks.
Even more features offers zsh.
However, with all those different shells you can easily fall victim to portability issues.
So I would suggest to do the scripting in a standardized language like Perl, Ruby, or Python.

Re: bash depot

centurion — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 10:44:41 GMT

@Geoff and James:
Thanks for the link, I will download the file..

@Pete:
Our customer would like to work with the bash..

thanks all for the quick help!!