No color output in iocage jail shell

[CJRoss]

I've created a jail in order to use rmlint to help clean up my storage. Running the rmlint command produces colorized output. However, when I run the rmlint.sh script that the rmlint command creates, I get a bunch of control characters instead of color output. This happens whether I use the web shell or the iocage console command.

I've tried setting IOCAGE_COLOR to TRUE but that doesn't seem to have any effect.

 

[winnielinnie]

What “shell” is the configured for the user?

I see color output when I use it. My shell is /bin/csh

Code:

echo $SHELL

- - -


UPDATE: I figured it out.

You need to specifically invoke bash when running the script:

Code:

bash rmlint.sh

Looks like the authors of rmlint set /bin/sh as the interpreter for the auto-generated script file.

 

[CJRoss]

What “shell” is the configured for the user?

I see color output when I use it. My shell is /bin/csh

Code:

echo $SHELL

- - -


UPDATE: I figured it out.

You need to specifically invoke bash when running the script:

Code:

bash rmlint.sh

Looks like the authors of rmlint set /bin/sh as the interpreter for the auto-generated script file.

I'm using the root user of the jail and my shell is csh. Did you just pkg install bash?

 

[winnielinnie]

I'm using the root user of the jail and my shell is csh. Did you just pkg install bash?

Correct. If you don't have bash installed, then yes you need to install it with pkg install bash

 

[Whattteva]

Looks like the authors of rmlint set /bin/sh as the interpreter for the auto-generated script file.

Typical LInux script authors assuming /bin/sh is just a symlink to bash.