Hello Einar,

Einar Largenius <jaadu@lysator.liu.se> writes:

> I use guix on a foreign distro and the version of bash provided by guix seems
> to have many builtin commands missing.
>
> If I run /usr/bin/bash I have no issues and can use guix and everything else
> without issue, but if I run ~/.guix-profile/bin/bash (or just bash) from my
> terminal I get errors like these:
>
>     bash: shopt: progcomp: invalid shell option name
>     bash: shopt: progcomp: invalid shell option name
>     bash: complete: command not found
>     bash: complete: command not found
>     #... and so on
>
> Other builtin commands like help also seems to be missing. Some input commands
> also don't work, instead printing things like ^P or ^N when trying to browse
> history.

What ~/.guix-profile/bin/bash points to? See:

    readlink -f ~/.guix-profile/bin/bash

If it's ‘bash-minimal’, then try the ‘bash’ package insted, e.g.:

    guix package --remove bash-minimal
    guix package --install bash


Oleg.