IBM Websphere Application Server (WAS)

See the Scripting with wsadmin page

IBM supposes that /bin/sh is a bash shell, and in all the shell scripts it uses bash specific syntax, but invoking them via #!/bin/sh .

To fix the issue you should:

• Momentarily replace the link for /bin/sh from dash (the Ubuntu standard) to bash:

  # cd /bin ; rm sh ; ln -s bash sh

• Run the installation (via launchpad.sh)

• Undo the shell switch done before, with:

  # cd /bin ; rm sh ; ln -s dash sh

• After the installation, replace all the occurrences of #!/bin/sh with #!/bin/bash in all the script in the WebSphere directory:

find . -name \*.sh |\
    xargs perl -i.orig -pe 's|^#!/bin/sh|#!/bin/bash|'

• pmt.sh (gui)
• manageprofiles.sh (command line)

You can see the list of existing profiles/instance in the wsinstance.config file

• versionInfo.sh → WAS version
• serverStatus.sh → server/node/dmgr status (started, stopped…)