tldr/pages/common/rbash.md

756 B

rbash

Restricted Bash shell, equivalent to bash --restricted. Does not permit changing the working directory, redirecting command output, or modifying environment variables, among other things. See also histexpand for history expansion. More information: https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/The-Restricted-Shell.

  • Start an interactive shell session:

rbash

  • Execute a command and then exit:

rbash -c "{{command}}"

  • Execute a script:

rbash {{path/to/script.sh}}

  • Execute a script, printing each command before executing it:

rbash -x {{path/to/script.sh}}

  • Execute commands from a script, stopping at the first error:

rbash -e {{path/to/script.sh}}

  • Read and execute commands from stdin:

rbash -s