Requirements: 1.5+

Overview: Works only on rooted android devices with Busybox and SuperSU (or Superuser) installed. 

Alternative: Root your phone with The Rooting App and install this app. ***

This Installer installs GNU bash 4.2 to your device.

Bash is a Unix shell written by Brian Fox for the GNU Project as a free software replacement for the Bourne shell (sh). Released in 1989, it has been distributed widely as the shell for the GNU operating system and as the default shell on Linux and Mac OS X. It has been ported to Microsoft Windows and distributed with Cygwin and MinGW, to DOS by the DJGPP project, to Novell NetWare and to Android via GNU Bash Installer and various terminal emulation applications. --Wikipedia

Source code, apps and binaries are available at bitcubate.com

Smartphones are more like computers - my goal is to bring ported and cross compiled binaries of GNU tools to give the GNU/Linux feel!

Keyboard shortcuts

Tab ↹ : Autocompletes from the cursor position.

Ctrl+a : Moves the cursor to the line start 

Ctrl+b : Moves the cursor back one character 

Ctrl+c : Sends the signal SIGINT to the current task, which aborts and closes it.

Ctrl+d : Sends an EOF marker, which closes the current shell or deletes the current character if text present

Ctrl+e : Moves the cursor to the line end 

Ctrl+f : Moves the cursor forward one character

Ctrl+g : Abort the research and restore the original line.

Ctrl+h : Deletes the previous character

Ctrl+i : Equivalent to the tab key.

Ctrl+j : Equivalent to the enter key.

Ctrl+k : Clears the line content after the cursor and copies it into the clipboard

Ctrl+l : Clears the screen content

Ctrl+n : Recalls the next command (↓).

Ctrl+o : Executes the found command from history, and fetch the next line relative to the current line from the history for editing.

Ctrl+p : Recalls the prior command (↑).

Ctrl+r : Recalls the last command including the specified character(s)

Ctrl+s : Go back to the next more recent command of the research

Ctrl+t : Transpose the previous two characters.

Ctrl+u : Clears the line content before the cursor and copies it into the clipboard

Ctrl+v : If the next input is also a control sequence, type it literally (e. g. Ctrl+v Ctrl+h = "^H")

Ctrl+w : Clears the word before the cursor and copies it into the clipboard

Ctrl+x Ctrl+e : Edits the current line in the $EDITOR program, or vi if undefined.

Ctrl+x Ctrl+r : Read in the contents of the inputrc file, and incorporate any bindings or variable assignments found there

Ctrl+x Ctrl+u : Incremental undo, separately remembered for each line

Ctrl+x Ctrl+v : Display version information about the current instance of bash.

Ctrl+x Ctrl+x : Alternates the cursor with its old position

Ctrl+y : Adds the clipboard content from the cursor position

Ctrl+z : Sends the signal SIGTSTP to the current task, which suspends it. To execute it in background one can enter bg. To bring it back from background or suspension fg ['process name or job id'] can be issued

Ctrl+_ : Incremental undo, separately remembered for each line

Alt+b : Moves the cursor backward one word

Alt+c : Capitalizes the character under the cursor and moves to the end of the word

Alt+d : Cuts the word after the cursor

Alt+f : Moves the cursor forward one word

Alt+l : Lowers the case of every character from the cursor's position to the end of the current word

Alt+r : Cancels the changes and puts back the line as it was in the history

Alt+u : Capitalizes every character from the cursor's position to the end of the current word

Alt+. : Insert the last argument to the previous command

--Wikipedia

Credits go to Friedrich Schäuffelhut for allowing me to use his OpenVPN Installer source and to re-distribute my changes under a GNU/GPL licence.

Enjoy bash on your device. Feel free to send mail for support or suggestions for next releases. Thank you all supporters! If you like this app, also have a look at Super Switch User.