Envsubst

UNIX for Beginners Q & A
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I am having an issue trying to install envsubst on solaris 11..

it is on all of the solaris 10, but not on 11.

and i can not even seem to find it on the repository which is an http ip address.

I dont see much on line about it..

can any assist me in even finding the correct name?

I have done a search on

  • text/gnu-gettext
  • GNU gettext and
  • SUNWgnu-gettextS

no luck with anything?

thanks

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Here is the envsubst man page for Oracle Solaris 11.2 :

envsubst - man pages section 1: User Commands

Both are supported on SPARC and x86-64 architectures, so why not just copy over your envsubst file(s) from your Solaris 10 box to Solaris 11 and test?

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i thought about that and will give it a try... but i wanted to

just run

Pkg install

to do it smoothly...

v/r

goya

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It is a good idea not to get into the trap of installing everything with package managers, especially when they are not available or even older versions which might have a security flaw.

I never hesitate to build and / or install manually if a package is not available; and often I find the manual builds / installs are better because I understand it more completely when I do it myself.

The term "smooth" is relative.

In the time it takes to search the net and ask question in forums, you could have installed it manually :slight_smile:

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