Originally posted by: WalterSnyder

I was happy to learn that BASH is available as an RPM package for AIX.
We have several install scripts in BASH that we want to run on AIX.

I have located the package and "installed" it with RPM.
Now what do I do? I tried typing "bash", or "chsh /usr/bin/bash" ...

Originally posted by: hdkutz

Simply - use it!
After Installation of RPM you should have
/usr/bin/bash
binary. This could be used in your Hash-Bang of your bash-Scripts.

If you like the shell, add it to your login shells in /etc/security/login.cfg
After that, you are able to use Bash as Login Shell.

Happy bashing!

Cheers,
ku

Originally posted by: WalterSnyder

Thanks! I can now run my bash scripts from within ksh command line. So at this point I am all set. My next question would be how to set up the bash login/terminal environment but I will tackle this later on. At the moment I have ksh environment the way I like it.

Originally posted by: ColombianJoker

You can

A. create an EMPTY $HOME/.bash_profile
B. put
&& exec /usr/bin/bash --login
in yout $HOME/.profile

Originally posted by: ColombianJoker

The forums ATE my simbols !!!

Put
test -x "/usr/bin/bash" && exec /usr/bin/bash --login
in your .profile