UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi guys !!

well i'm still new in learning UNIX , and actually i'm still studying it by myself ..

anyway, some people told me the Bourne-again shell is a good version of UNIX to work on , and i tried to download yesterday but i didn't know how to start it ...... the ReadMe file associated with it said :


" Simply place the bash.exe, and bash.dll file somewhere
on your PATH, and copy the supplied .bashrc file to your
Home directory. " ..

and i dont know what he means by this !!!!!!!!!!! ..

any help is appreciated guys !!! .. Thanks a lot ..

P.S : This version of Shell is designed to work on windows environment.

What that means is that you have to go to the command prompt, and run the command 'path'. Then copy the bash.exe and the bash.dll file to any of the directories that is shown in the output - C:\WINNT\system32, C:\WINNT are good bets to always appear in the path.

The .bashrc file is not a must have (atleast on unix). So you could check to see if you can run bash without that file and if you can, skip the step. You can create the .bashrc file later - after you learn a bit more about the shell.

Thanks blowtorch
i have copied the 2 files into this path ---> C:\window\system32

but when i run the bash.exe .. the following message appears :

bash:warning:could not find /tmp , please create !

what should i do ?

Thanks a lot again ...

Try creating a directory called 'tmp' in C:. You already have a 'temp' directory, but unix uses 'tmp' so bash might be looking for that.