1.7 BASH

Purpose

Provides the BASH shell, including a variety of useful system utilities, on NetWare®.

Syntax

bash.nlm

Known Issues

This section contains know issues, including issues where BASH might work differently than on NetWare.

Limited Functionality on DOS Partitions

Several BASH utilities rely on the existence of inode numbers for proper operation. Because files on the DOS partition do not have inode numbers, these utilities might exhibit strange behavior when accessing files on DOS partitions.

These errors might limit functionality on DOS partitions, but should not result in server abends or data loss.

Control Sequences

Creating Mount Points to Access NetWare Volumes

The BASH shell on NetWare uses POSIX style directory syntax similiar to Linux* when specifying pathnames. The foreward slash character (/) is a path separator. The backslash character (\) is not a path separator. Volume names may not be used to specify the location of files or directories (that is, it is invalid to type cd sys:/system). The sys: volume is specified by an initial foreward slash (/) in the path (for example, cd /system). To access other volumes at the BASH prompt, you must set up a pathtab file.

To set up this file, modify (or create) sys:/etc/pathtab, placing each mount point and volume on a line similar to the following:

[POSIXPath] [NetWare Path]

For example:

/vols/data  data:\
/mystuff     data:\users\username
/vol1        VOL1:\

The first example mounts the data volume to /vols/data in BASH, the second example mounts the users\username folder to /mystuff in BASH, and so on. In these examples, the directories /vols/data, /mystuff, and /vol1 must exist in the root of the sys: volume.

Supported BASH Commands

The following BASH commands are supported in NetWare. For commands marked with *, see Notes. Information on using each of these commands can be obtained by running man [command] in BASH.

Notes

The following table contains notes for any utility marked with * in the previous table: