Problems customizing bash shell

I am trying to add some customizing environment and aliases to my bash shell but cannot seem to get the .bash_profile file to be recognized when I open a xterm. I can source the file and get it loaded but would rather it be automatic. Any suggestions?
G4, G5 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

I found a post in another area explaining that X11 is invoked as a non-shell start and therefore reads .bashrc and not .bash_profile. Moved my commands to that file and everything works.

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Problem with running Bash shell scripts

I am unable to run Bash shell scripts on the UNIX Terminal application.
This is the transcript from the Terminal application.
Zhi-Yang-Ongs-Computer:/Applications/MetaPost/metapost-1.102 zhiyangong$ ./test1.sh
dyld: Symbol not found: _BC
Referenced from: /usr/local/bin/bash
Expected in: /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib
Trace/BPT trap
Zhi-Yang-Ongs-Computer:/Applications/MetaPost/metapost-1.102 zhiyangong$
Is this a problem with the the default installation of the Bash shell? Can I install the Bash shell on my own? If so, how can I do that?
Also, how can I get the dynamic linker, dyld, to refer to the symbol "_BC"? What does this symbol "_BC" refer to?

This was in your posted output:
/usr/local/bin/bash
You are NOT running the default bash, you are trying to run a private copy.
The default Mac OS X bash is located at
/bin/bash
Try the following:
/bin/bash ./test1.sh
Does that work?
What is the first line of your script? Is it:
#!/bin/bash
Or maybe
#!/usr/bin/env bash
/usr/bin/env would find the first bash in PATH . I find this most useful for finding perl on different systems, but sh, ksh, bash, zsh, csh, tcsh are all generally found in /bin so I do not bother using /usr/bin/env
And if you have
#!/usr/local/bin/bash
Then the person that wrote test1.sh choose to use something besides the default bash
Or maybe this script was transferred from some system where you needed to put your own copy of bash in /usr/local/bin because the vendor does not distribute bash
Then again, you have not showed us what is inside your script, so it is possible something in the script called something else which invoked the /usr/local/bin/bash
If that is the case, then you might try:
/bin/bash -x ./test1.sh
which should show you the commands executed before it died.

How to invoke BASH shell and execute a command in that shell in Windows 98

Hello, I have a problem and if somebody will help me, I will be very glad. Thank you.
I am using BASH shell on Windows 98 OS by means of CYGWIN. And I want to invoke this BASH shell and execute a preprogrammed command in the shell (./scan fileName.txt) from a JAVA program. But so far, I am not sucessful. I can not read or write anything from / to BASH shell. It either blocks and freezes (When I use waitFor( ) ) or appears and disappears without executing scan command (When I do not use waitFor( ) ). My code is like this:
// This method is used for compiling a file.
// It invokes BASH shell and executes "./scan fileName.txt" command
public void compileFileMethod () {
try {
Process proc = ( Runtime.getRuntime() ).exec ("C:\\MyDocuments\\CYGWIN.BAT); //I also tried to add -c ./scan fileName.txt after .BAT );
// I also tried to write "C:\\MyDocuments\\BASH.EXE" but it did not help
OutputStream ostr = proc.getOutputStream();
BufferedWriter bw = new BufferedWriter ( new OutputStreamWriter (ostr) );
InputStream istr = proc.getInputStream();
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader ( new InputStreamReader (istr) );
InputStream errorStr = proc.getErrorStream();
BufferedReader errorBr = new BufferedReader ( new InputStreamReader (errorStr) );
bw.write("scan case40.10.txt"); /* I am trying to input the scan command to the shell,but it is not working*/
bw.flush();
Vector list = new Vector (1) ;
String str;
while ( (str = br.readLine() ) != null) {
list.addElement(str);
} // End of while
Enumeration enumForList = list.elements();
while ( enumForList.hasMoreElements() ) {
String tempString;
tempString = ( String ) enumForList.nextElement();
System.out.println(tempString); // I am trying to read the outputs of the scan command but it is not reading (I can not see any output)
I tried with and without waitFor( ), it did not work
// wait for command to terminate
proc.waitFor();
// close streams
br.close();
bw.close();
errorBr.close();
} // End of try
catch ( IOException ioe ) {
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog (null, "Input / output error occured while compiling file ", "Error", JOptionPane.ERROR_MESSAGE);
} // End of catch
catch ( SecurityException se ) {
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog (null, "Security error occured while compiling file ", "Error", JOptionPane.ERROR_MESSAGE);
catch ( InterruptedException ie ) {
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog (null, "Interruption error occured while compiling file ", "Error", JOptionPane.ERROR_MESSAGE);
} // End of method compileFileMethod
// Thank you for your helps and time.

You cannot invoke BAT files directly, you have to invoke the program that run those files which is your Windows 98 shell. For example (under windows 2000), i would invoke "cmd.exe sricpt.bat some args", rather than "script.bar some args".
Hope this will help you out.

Bash shell for sid adm and ora sid user

I'm planning to make bash shell as the the default shell for my <sid>adm and ora<sid> user. Will there any issues? It seems harmless.
My current setups are ECC6 on top of AIX 5.3 and Oracle 10g
regards,
Marjan

The only problem is permission of user access to that bash shell. as well as what u u want to run i mean to say if it is any haevy erport or update insert or refresh functionality then do not run at the time of haevy load.
Thanks

Bash shell does not recognise 'java', 'javac' commands (Linux command line)

i' ve used javac and java compile & execute commands to build the same application on the DOS command line with Windows - no problem.
But when I try to compile the same file on the command line under Linux Redhat (7.1) using Bash shell i get <bash: javac: command not found> and <bash: java: command not found>.
In both cases I'm using j2sdk1.4.2 downloaded from java.sun.com for Windows & Linux respectively.
I make sure I have both the javac and the file I want to compile in the same directory ../j2sdk1.4.2/bin for both the Windows and the Linux applications.
Is there something I need to do to get bash to recognise javac, java etc? Is there a different setup procedure?
Any angles on this are much appreciated ..

Have you tried these correctly..
Set the CLASSPATH environment variable to include whichever directories you like, eg (on bash) type:
export CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:.:<your java dirs>
To make java easier to run, put the directory in which it is installed into your path:
export JAVA_HOME=<where you installed java>
Then do
export PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin
verify it has worked by simply typing
java
You can put all of these commands into the .*rc file for your shell, so that they are executed every time you open the shell. So if you are using bash you can put them into ~/.bashrc
Read up setting the PATH and CLASSPATH for more info.
This shall resolve the issue .

AppleScript: How to let AppleScript use the same environment as Bash shell does?

Howdy!
I can run AppleScript from Bash shell.
I can also run Bash shell from AppleScript.
So my question is when I run a Bash shell script from AppleScript, I am hit with a path problem.
Suppose my AppleScript is under ~user/a.scpt. I want my AppleScript to know its current path (i.e. ~user/a.scpt).
So a quick snippet test in my AppleScript shows that AppleScript always begins from the root directory:
do shell script "pwd"
So let's do a workaround AppleScript like this:
tell application "Finder" to set currentDir to (target of front Finder window) as text
do shell script "cd " & (quoted form of POSIX path of currentDir) & "; pwd"
This works. However, this approach poses a potential danger.
Suppose when I run this AppleScript for a bash script, I inadvertently clicked other Finder Window. That would result in execution of bash script in that newly clicked Finder Window, resulting in a big mess.
Is there a better way to let the AppleScript to know its current path?

The following is what your Applescript environment looks like, so plan accordingly. If you want your Applescripts to be portable to other user environments, you should NOT depend on your environment, but rather embed all the environment knowledge you need into your script.
Applescript "do shell script" environment
pwd:
/bin/ls -dlaeO@ .
drwxr-xr-x 36 root wheel - 1292 Feb 28 09:58 .
/usr/bin/id -a
uid=501(raharris)
gid=20(staff)
groups=20(staff),
402(com.apple.sharepoint.group.1),
12(everyone),
61(localaccounts),
79(_appserverusr),
80(admin),
81(_appserveradm),
98(_lpadmin),
403(com.apple.sharepoint.group.2),
33(_appstore),
100(_lpoperator),
204(_developer),
398(com.apple.access_screensharing),
399(com.apple.access_ssh)
$#
0
$0
/path/to/your/shell/script
printenv:
SHELL=/bin/bash
TMPDIR=/var/folders/4t/t1djbq6j5pj951x44l9hwxtc0000gn/T/
Apple_PubSub_Socket_Render=/tmp/launch-mSKKJo/Render
USER=<username_running_the_Applescript>
SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/launch-7D4zpF/Listeners
__CF_USER_TEXT_ENCODING=0x1F5:0:0
PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin
__CHECKFIX1436934=1
PWD=/
HOME=/Users/<home_dir_of_running_user>
SHLVL=2
LOGNAME=<username_running_the_Applescript>
DISPLAY=/tmp/launch-qKucki/org.macosforge.xquartz:0
_=/usr/bin/printenv
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Any speculation around Bash "Shell shock" impact on VMware products?

According to VMware investigating bash command injection vulnerability aka Shell Shock (CVE-2014-6271, CVE-2014-7169) | VMware Securi…, VMware is investigating the impacts of the Bash security vulnerability on VMware products.
What do you think about the possible impact on ESXi hosts? Vulnerable to remote code execution or not?

Does anybody know if the vShield Manager 5.1.4.1912202 is affected by shellshock? Thanks!!
While not mentioning vShield Manager in particular, the KB article lists "vCloud Networking and Security 5.x (aka VMware Shield 5.x)" which the vShield Manager virtual appliance is a part of.
Since the vShield Manager virtual appliance runs a full GNU/Linux OS underneath, I'm 99% certain it has a bash and is thus affected as well, like all the other virtual appliances. In fact, I'm not aware of any VMware virtual appliance that don't have a bash shell (feel free to correct me if I'm wrong).
It seems like VMware is doing the proper thing and disabling parsing in bash altogether.
Probably requires a lot more QA testing, but mitigates future parser bugs that are most likely coming.
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/09/29/43
That's quite interesting.
This raises the general issue of virtual appliances and patching once again. The GNU/Linux OS running in pretty much all appliances is just a customized version of another popular distribution (majorly SuSe in VMware's VAs), so in theory you could just update with the distributions default packages instead of having to wait for vendors to publish it's "certified" updates.
I completely agree that QA is important and it can be problematic for certain packages like java, webserver or database software and depending libraries. But updates to more "generic" applications like bash or openssl (heartbleed), which only fix a very certain code area, shouldn't cause any issues in the applications.
Given the severity of bugs like Shellshock and Heartbleed, there might be limited patience in some environments with waiting for vendors re-packing fixes that are released since some time.
That "updating" a virtual appliance sometimes means "deploy a new VA from scratch and migrate data" doesn't help in that regard either.

DIsplay variable setting ReflectionX in Bash shell

Everyone,
Can somebody help me with setting display variable for running Configtool in ReflectoinX in Bash shell.
Appreciate your time. Thanks.

> It looks like it will work..only thing is that we need to set display variable..i assume.
If you logon as <sid>adm then no DISPLAY (or other variable) must be set if you use XDMCP.
> I am doing sudo for opening a java tool which needs x window..other x windows like visual admin is working fine but for configtool, i am getting this error saying display variable is not set.
That's what I was saying - do not switch users (sudo, su etc.) - that will delete the environment and invalidate .Xauthority.
> I am not given the <sid>adm password, can i just use X window with sudo OR do i need to get the <sid>adm password to start the configtool..
In that case I would not use XCMCP to connect but a pure telnet, do sudo and then set the DISPLAY to
<your-IP>:<reflection-display>. the latter can be found when open Reflection in the lower part of the configuration window.
Markus

Cisco ASA 5545-X Running Bash shell service???

Hi,
May I check whether if currently Cisco ASA 5545-X is having/using Bash shell service?
If yes, how can I disable the service?
Thks and Rgds

Please reference this link
http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20140926-bash
As per Cisco, ASA not effected, but as a precaution, eliminate if not limit ssh/htpps connections to authorized hosts until browser patches have been distributed.

Any tips on Controlling interactive bash shell on Cygwin via Java process?

Ideally, I'd like to be able to control an interactive bash shell on Cygwin from a Java process. But for starters, I want to do 'ls > /cygdrive/c/fred.txt'. The little program to do this, below, doesn't work. It simply runs without error.
Any ideas? And also, any tips on doing a fully interactive shell?
--> Java program to test simple command:
package com.treelogic_swe.real_estate_explorer.utils;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.InputStream;
* Quick and dirty test of Java to Cygwin bash shell process control.
* Thanks to [email protected]
* re: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.java.help/browse_thread/thread/914403fbdd1de127/40363d2e7cbae823?lnk=st&q=cygwin+shell+java+process+runtime&rnum=1&hl=en#40363d2e7cbae823
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Ideally, I'd like to be able to control an
interactive bash shell on Cygwin
What do you mean by this? Do you just want to start a bash shell, and have it's input and output come from and go to your Java program?
Please be specific about what you want, as there are a couple of interpretations for what you said. You need to understand the differences and relationships among terminals, shells, shell builtins, and executables.
You'll want to read this:
http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-12-2000/jw-1229-traps.html
from a Java
process. But for starters, I want to do 'ls >
/cygdrive/c/fred.txt'. The little program to do
this, below, doesn't work. It simply runs without
error.
, <, |, and others are specific to the shell. When you're in a terminal, and you type ls > /tmp/zzz, it's the bash shell that interprets the >. Cygwin doesn't know anything about it. ls doesn't know anything about it.So if you want to to that, the command you'd execute from Java is not ls, but bash (or some other shell). You'd then tell bash to execute the rest. I'm not sure what the command line arg is for bash to tell it the rest of the command line args are a command that bash should interpret and execute. I think it might be -c like it is for zsh. So you'd need to do something like Runtie.getRuntime().exec("bash -c 'ls > /tmp/zzz'");

Bash shell

hi,
in my solaris 9 (sparc) i am using the sh shell. i like to upgrade to the bash shell.
please guide me on how can i do this? i m a newbie on solaris 9.
thanks.

Yes, it is included, just as bubbwe has noted.
You would need to have installed the Developer Cluster or more.
Core Cluster does not include it..
Here's a link to the cluster contents in the Sun System Handbook.
http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/Software/Solaris_Ref/Solaris_9/clusterchart.html

Bash shell's .bash_history file

In a Bash shell .bash_history file is generated.
How we can modify the settings so as to get timestamp in .bash_history?
Regards
Ritesh
Edited by: riteshumrawala on Jun 30, 2008 1:27 PM

Exit bash shell and start a new one. history on command line should show timestamps. I have timestamps in my .bash_history file, but they are not formatting properly.
#echo $HISTTIMEFORMAT
#%D:%T
#echo $0
#bash
#history
1 07/03/08:13:13:52env
2 07/03/08:13:14:23env
3 07/03/08:13:14:29ls -la
4 07/03/08:13:14:31pwd
5 07/03/08:13:14:40find / -name profile
6 07/03/08:13:14:58ls -la
7 07/03/08:13:15:04ls -latr
8 07/03/08:13:15:15cat .bash_history
9 07/03/08:13:15:38echo $0
10 07/03/08:13:15:39ls -la
11 07/03/08:13:15:45cat .bash_history
#cat .bash_history
#1215105232
env
#1215105263
env
#1215105269
ls -la
#1215105271
pwd
#1215105280
find / -name profile
#1215105298
ls -la
#1215105304
ls -latr
#1215105315
cat .bash_history
#1215105338
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#1215105339
ls -la
#1215105345
cat .bash_history
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john

Invoking a bash shell script from Java code

Hi All
I am trying to invoke a Bash shell script using java code. The arguments required are "source wmGenPatch <source dir> <destination dir> no_reverse.
in the code I have specified the arguments considering the cannonical paths of the files as the code may run on Unix or windows platform.
I am getting a error while invoking Runtime.getRuntime().exec(args). The error is as follows :
"The Error Occurred is: CreateProcess: source D:\Package4.0\workspace\DiffEngineScripts\v4a02\wmGenPatch D:\Package4.0\workspace\fromImageFilesDir\ D:\Package4.0\workspace\toImageFilesDir\ no_reverse error=2"
It seems that error=2 indicates that the 'file not found' exception. But i can see the directories referred to in the error at place in the workspace.
Kindly advice.
Thanks in advance.

Hi All
I am pretty new to invoking bash shell scripts from java and not sure if i am progressing in right direction.
The piece of code tried by me is as follows
try {
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          } catch (IOException e) {
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               separator = "/";
          } else {
               separator = "\\";
          String args[] = new String[7];
          args[0] = "/bin/sh";
          args[1] = "-c";
          args[2] = "source";
          args[3] = currentDir + separator + "DiffEngineScripts" + separator
                    + "v4a02" + separator + "wmGenPatch";
          args[4] = sourceFileAdd;
          args[5] = destFileAdd;
          if (isReverseDeltaRequired) {
               args[6] = "reverse";
          } else {
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               InputStreamReader isr = new InputStreamReader(result);
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               String line = null;
               while ( (line = br.readLine()) != null)
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               int exitVal = xyz.waitFor();
               System.out.println("Leaving Testrun.java");
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               t.printStackTrace();
and on running the same i am getting Java.io.IOException with the stack trace
java.io.IOException: CreateProcess: \bin\sh -c source D:\Package4.0\workspace\DiffEngineScripts\v4a02\wmGenPatch D:\Package4.0\workspace\fromImageFilesDir\ D:\Package4.0\workspace\toImageFilesDir\ no_reverse error=3
kindly advice
Thanks in advance

Bash shell scripting

Dear Mac Users:
I have a bash script which I copied from a bash book to learn how to use bash. Whenever I try to run it on Linux (cygwin--Windows Linux interpreter) it throws an error that something is wrong with the syntax.
But when I try to run the same script on my Mac using Terminal.app the bash shell throws an error saying access denied. I chowned a copy of bash and referenced this copy in my script but I still get the error. I also chowned the script to the user account on my Mac. Why can I not run the script?

#!/bin/bash
# cookbook filename: mkalbum
# makalbum - make an html "album" of a pile of photo files
# ver 2.0
# An album is a directory of html pages.
# It will be created in the current directory
# An album page is the html to display one photo,with
# a title that is the filename of the photo, along with
# hyperlinks to the first, previous, next, and last photos.
# ERROUT
ERROUT()
printf "%b" "$@"
} >&2
# USAGE
USAGE()
ERROUT "usage: %s <newdir>
" $(basename $0)
# EMIT(thisph, startph, prevph, nextph, lastph)
EMIT()
THISPH="../$1"
STRTPH="${2%.*}.html"
PREVPH="${3%.*}.html"
NEXTPH="${4%.*}.html"
LASTPH="${5%.*}.html"
if [ -z "$3" ]
then
PREVLINE='<TD> Prev </TD>'
else
PREVLINE='<TD> Prev </TD>'
fi
if [ -z "$4" ]
then
NEXTLINE='<TD> Next </TD>'
else
PREVLINE='<TD> Next </TD>'
fi
cat <<EOF
<HTML>
<HEAD><TITLE>$THISPH</TITLE></HEAD>
<BODY>
$THISPH
<TABLE WIDTH = "25%">
<TR>
<TD> First </TD>
$PREVLINE
$NEXTLINE
<TD> Last </TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>
</BODY>
</HTML>
EOF
if (($# !=1 ))
then
USAGE
exit -1
fi
ALBUM="$1"
if [ -d "${ALBUM}"]
then
ERROUT "Directory [%s] already exists.
" ${ALBUM}
USAGE
exit -2
else
mkdir "$ALBUM"
fi
cd "$ALBUM"
PREV=""
FIRST=""
LAST="last"
while read PHOTO
do
# prime the pump
if [ -z "${CURRENT}" ]
then
CURRENT="$PHOTO"
FIRST="$PHOTO"
continue
fi
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PREV="$CURRENT"
CURRENT="$PHOTO"
done
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# make the symlink for "last"
ln -s "${PHILE%.*}.html" ./last.html
# make a link for index.html
ln -s "${FIRST%.*}.html" ./index.html

Bash shell for root not sourcing .bashrc

Hi all
Finally got around to getting my home LAPP server up and running - on Arch of course!
Small problem that's really annoying. I can't get root's shell to source the .bashrc file.
I (kind of) followed the colorized prompt tip from the Wiki:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pos … nd_Console
Except I put EVERYTHING in to /etc/bashrc then sym linked my user and root ~/.bashrc to /etc/bashrc:
fukawi2 ~ $ ls -lha .bashrc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 fukawi2 fukawi2 11 2008-04-01 21:53 .bashrc -> /etc/bashrc
And that works fine. Root doesn't though. I tried removing the symlink and replacing it with a 'normal' .bashrc file that only sources /etc/bashrc if it exists:
[root@lapp ~]# cat .bashrc
if [ -f /etc/bashrc ]; then
. /etc/bashrc
fi
But if I source it manually after I su or sudo, it works fine:
fukawi2 ~ $ sudo -i
[root@lapp ~]#
[root@lapp ~]# (There's no pretty colorized prompt here)
[root@lapp ~]#
[root@lapp ~]# logout
fukawi2 ~ $ su -
Password:
[root@lapp ~]#
[root@lapp ~]# (Still no pretty prompt!)
[root@lapp ~]#
[root@lapp ~]# logout
fukawi2 ~ $ sudo -i
[root@lapp ~]# . .bashrc
root ~ #
root ~ # (That's better; now I have the pretty prompt!)
root ~ #
Not having the colors doesn't bother me so much - it's not having all my aliases and not being able to change root's $PATH variable to include /usr/local/bin/ that's really annoying.
Anyone got any advice or suggestions please?

Besides having a .bashrc file, you also need a .bash_profile file in root's home directory. .bash_profile should contain the following:
. $HOME/.bashrc
the .bash_profile file tells bash what file to use for configuration, which by convention has always been .bashrc.
HTH
Pudge
Edit: Opps, too slow on the trigger. Brebs beat me to it. I spent too much time looking in man bash for an explanation of the .bash_profile and .bashrc files.
Last edited by Pudge (2008-04-03 02:04:54)

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