%general-entities; ]> Bash If you downloaded the Bash documentation tarball and wish to install HTML documentation, issue the following commands: tar -xvf ../bash-doc-&bash-doc-version;.tar.gz && sed -i "s|htmldir = @htmldir@|htmldir = /usr/share/doc/bash-&bash-version;|" \ Makefile.in The following patch contains updates from the maintainer. The maintainer of Bash only releases these patches to fix serious issues. patch -Np1 -i ../&bash-fixes-patch; Prepare Bash for compilation: ./configure --prefix=/usr --bindir=/bin \ --without-bash-malloc --with-installed-readline --with-installed-readline This option tells Bash to use the readline library that is already installed on the system rather than using its own readline version. Compile the package: make To test the results, issue: make tests. Install the package: make install Run the newly compiled bash program (replacing the one that is currently being executed): exec /bin/bash --login +h The parameters used make the bash process an interactive login shell and continue to disable hashing so that new programs are found as they become available. Installed programs bash, bashbug, and sh (link to bash) Short Descriptions bash 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 bash bashbug A shell script to help the user compose and mail standard formatted bug reports concerning bash bashbug sh 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 sh