[luau] bash and bash2
Alvin Murphy
amurphy at hawaii.rr.com
Fri Sep 12 16:37:00 PDT 2003
Keith wrote:
>* Alvin Murphy <amurphy at hawaii.rr.com> [12/09/2003 2109EDT]:
>
>
>>I thought I put this question out, but I don't see it. i am trying to
>>run a program that references bash2 and quits; what command can i use
>>to make sure that calls to bash2 work ok, i.e bash=bash2 or something
>>similar. Thanks
>>
>>
>
>Assuming the major version number of the bash package you have is 2 (and
>not 1), you could -- as root -- execute:
>
> ln -s /bin/bash /bin/bash2
>
>That will crate a symbolic link called /bin/bash2 to /bin/bash .
>
>To check your version of bash, do this at the bash shell prompt:
>
> echo $BASH_VERSION
>
>it will tell you the version of bash you are running.
>
>Regards,
>krjw.
>
>
Thanks; that did the trick. I should have remembered that.
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