[chucker8]

Hi All,
This applies to Solaris 2.6.

I need to move the bash program from /usr/local/bin to /bin.

Is it as simple as just moving the file from one directory to the other? ie

# pwd
/usr/local/bin
#mv bash /bin
#

thanks!

[linuxphile]

Why do you need to move bash? Doing this will likely have many unintended consequences. It might be easier/wiser to add /usr/local/bin to the PATH environment variable rather than moving the file. Or at the least create a symbolic link rather than move.

Create a link from /usr/local/bin/bash to /bin/bash with:
ln -s /usrl/local/bin/bash /bin/bash

Added /usr/local/bin to your PATH with:
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin

The above keeps the current path with the appended /usr/local/bin.

[chucker8]

thanks for reply!
I had the OS rebuilt. I have many bash scripts which call bash from /bin. If I create the link will I be good to go?

thx

[linuxphile]

Yes I believe you will.

Good luck!

[Squashman]

I had this happen to me as well once but it was because I moved my website from one provider to another. It had Perl in a different directory so I had to change a lot of perl scripts. I didn't do it manually. Search google for Perl One Liners. It will help you change your path to all your bash scripts very quickly.

[AGCurry]

It's almost never a good idea to use absolute path names in scripts. As linuxphile suggests, use your PATH variable to your advantage, and, in this case, make a link to bash in /bin.