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Digish Reshamwala wrote:
> Hi,

Hi.

> How do I install bash?  I am using FreeBSD/i3b6 5.2.1

There are several ways to install software. The handbook deals with them 
quite extensively: 
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports.html

'man pkg_add' might also be of help.

If your script doesn't require bash, you could just use /bin/sh instead.

> Also, whats the command to check which version of FreeBSD I am using?

'uname -a' works well for this.

--Tim Erlin