Install and configure bash on OpenBSD 6.6

After installing openbsd 6.6 and coming from a linux background, am used to the bash shell.In this tutorial, i install bash shell and configure it.

install bash

# pkg_add bash

On openbsd 6.6, ksh is the default shell, so we will change to bash.

# chsh -s /usr/local/bin/bash

To use bash, just type bash and you will be presented with

-bash-5.0#

we then configure PS1 bash prompt. create bashrc file with and add the following content.

# echo "export PS1="[\u@\h \W] "" >> ~/.bashrc

We add the following to the bottom of the file .profile, so its load bashrc file:

# nano ~/.profile


if [ -s ~/.bashrc ]; then
source ~/.bashrc;
fi


You can reboot server or just source the bashrc file with:

# source ~/.bashrc