stephanbosal@in-laptop3:/bin$ dpkg -p bash Package: bash Essential: yes Priority: required Section: shells Installed-Size: 1416 Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers Architecture: amd64 Multi-Arch: foreign Version: 4.2-5ubuntu3 Replaces: bash-completion (<< 20060301-0), bash-doc (<= 2.05-1) Depends: base-files (>= 2.1.12), debianutils (>= 2.15) Pre-Depends: dash (>= 0.5.5.1-2.2), libc6 (>= 2.15), libtinfo5 Recommends: bash-completion (>= 20060301-0) Suggests: bash-doc Conflicts: bash-completion (<< 20060301-0) Filename: pool/main/b/bash/bash_4.2-2ubuntu2_amd64.deb Size: 642968 MD5sum: 273afd82a606d827be347bfa26900be9 Description: GNU Bourne Again SHell Bash is an sh-compatible command language interpreter that executes commands read from the standard input or from a file. Bash also incorporates useful features from the Korn and C shells (ksh and csh). . Bash is ultimately intended to be a conformant implementation of the IEEE POSIX Shell and Tools specification (IEEE Working Group 1003.2). . The Programmable Completion Code, by Ian Macdonald, is now found in the bash-completion package. Homepage: http://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/bash/bashtop.html Original-Maintainer: Matthias Klose stephanbosal@in-laptop3:/bin$