bash: Command not found

[martin.schaible]

Hello

I didn't use the shell never before on my UTM, but now i need to do something.

After successful login, i tried to run a simple "ls -a", but the system can not find the command. In fact, bash finds no command at all. 

What can i do to get the command line working?

Thanks!

Martin

[chemlud]

Might be related to the user rights?

Crude hack: sudo su...

[fabian]

bash does not exist on OPNsense. use posix shell (/bin/sh) for automation if that is your issue.

f you have bash but other things fail, I would suggest to check the PATH environment variable.

[siga75]

what Fabian said :)

echo $PATH

BTW: I hated not having bash, after installing sensei I realized it also provided bash shell, I am happy now

[franco]

Because typing

# pkg install bash

is so hard? :)


Cheers,
Franco

[siga75]

Because typing

# pkg install bash

is so hard? :)

LOL, I am quite new to opnsense/freebsd, I didn't realize it was available in the repositories, since I didn't see the option in the WUI, for installing new packages, I assumed there was some kind of restriction :)

[franco]

For portability with BSD in general we do not want bash in core because it would encourage contributors to write bash scripts which won't run if something goes bad with the packages which bash is one of.

And besides bash itself and readily available binary packages you can also install other software from the ports tree as OPNsense provides compilers in the base system.

# opnsense-code tools ports
# cd /usr/ports/your/software
# make install


Cheers,
Franco