Install the bash shell in OpenBSD
If you did not buy your copy of OpenBSD then you won’t have any packages available locally in order to install the bash shell. The below example will show how to obtain the BASH package remotely.
- Step 1 - Adding the BASH shell remotely
- Step 2 - Setting BASH as your login shell
1. Add the i386 package for the BASH shell:
# pkg_add -v ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/4.3/packages/i386/bash-3.2.33.tgz
2. Setting BASH as your login shell:
# chsh -s bash
Why? What good does bash provide the user that the already present ksh does not? I can name nothing ksh lacks that bash provides.