Installing Sh-utils-2.0

Estimated build time:           0.42 SBU
Estimated required disk space:  12 MB

Contents of Sh-utils

Last checked against version 2.0.

The Sh-utils package contains a number of basic shell manipulation utilities.

Sh-utils installs the following:

Program Files

basename, chroot, date, dirname, echo, env, expr, factor, false, groups, hostid, id, logname, nice, nohup, pathchk, pinky, printenv, printf, pwd, seq, sleep, stty, su, tee, test, true, tty, uname, uptime, users, who, whoami and yes

Sh-utils Installation Dependencies

Last checked against version 2.0.

Autoconf: autoconf, autoheader
Automake: aclocal, automake
Bash: sh
Binutils: ar, as, ld, ranlib
Diffutils: cmp
Fileutils: chmod, chown, install, ls, mv, rm
Gettext: msgfmt, xgettext
Gcc: cc, cc1, collect2, cpp0, gcc
Glibc: getconf
Grep: egrep, fgrep, grep
M4: m4
Make: make
Gawk: gawk
Perl: perl
Sed: sed
Sh-utils: basename, echo, expr, hostname, sleep, uname
Tar: tar
Texinfo: install-info, makeinfo
Textutils: cat, tr

Installation of Sh-utils

This package requires its hostname-patch to be applied before you can install it. This patch suppresses the build of the hostname program which will be installed later with the net-tools package. The hostname program from the net-tools package is a much better version (and in some cases even required since it supports options that are needed by some programs such as XFree86). Apply the patch:

patch -Np1 -i ../sh-utils-2.0-hostname.patch

Prepare Shellutils to be compiled:

./configure --prefix=/usr

Continue with compiling the package:

make

Install the package:

make install

Finally, move some of the programs to more appropriate locations:

mv /usr/bin/{basename,date,echo,false,pwd} /bin &&
mv /usr/bin/{sleep,stty,su,test,true,uname} /bin &&
mv /usr/bin/chroot /usr/sbin

FHS compliance notes

There is a command installed in this package which is named test. It is often used in shell scripts to evaluate conditions, but is more often encountered in the form of [ condition ]. These brackets are built into the bash interpreter, but the FHS dictates that there should be a [ binary. Create it by running:

ln -s test /bin/[