CentOS - Aug 2008 - nash on centos 5.2

I am trying to use nash on centos 5.2


to demonstrate the problem I did:

cd /sbin
ln -sf /sbin/nash sleep
export PATH=/sbin:$PATH
sleep 5
and I get an error.

Red Hat nash version  5.1.19.6 starting
nash cannot open 5: no such file or directory

Why doesnt that work?

Thanks,

Jerry

> ln -sf /sbin/nash sleep
> sleep 5
> nash cannot open 5: no such file or directory
> Why doesnt that work?
for the same reason that running "nash 5" won't work.

the first parameter of nash is expected to be a script name.

if you want to feed "sleep 5" into nash, you would give:

sleep 5 | /sbin/nash


"man nash" is your friend.

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Spiro Harvey                  Knossos Networks Ltd
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Hi,

On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 19:34, Jerry Geis <geisj at pagestation.com>
wrote:
> ln -sf /sbin/nash sleep
> sleep 5
I think you are mixing up "nash" and "busybox". They are not
the same thing.

HTH,
Filipe