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Sunday, March 06, 2011

My Bash Profile - Part I

I wrote about my Bash profile a few years ago and since then I've made a quite a few changes to it such as adding a more powerful prompt and many more useful aliases and functions; some invented, others discovered. Over the next few posts, I will be sharing my current profile with you. Feel free to use and comment, but most importantly share any gems from your own profile that might be useful to the rest of us.

Note that I am using Bash version 4.1.2.

Update: My dotfiles are now in Git. For the latest version, please visit my GitHub dotfiles repository.

.bash_profile
This is executed by Bash for login shells. Quite simply, mine is:

if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
   source ~/.bashrc
fi

.bashrc
This is executed by Bash for interactive non-login shells:

# don't save command history
unset HISTFILE

# don't save duplicates in history
HISTCONTROL=ignoredups

EDITOR=vi
VISUAL=vim
PAGER='less -i'

set -o notify   # Report status of terminated bg jobs immediately
set -o emacs    # emacs-style editing

shopt -s extglob   # extended pattern matching features
shopt -s cdspell   # correct dir spelling errors on cd
shopt -s lithist   # save multi-line commands with newlines
shopt -s autocd    # if a command is a dir name, cd to it
shopt -s checkjobs # print warning if jobs are running on shell exit
shopt -s dirspell  # correct dir spelling errors on completion
shopt -s globstar  # ** matches all files, dirs and subdirs
shopt -s cmdhist   # save multi-line commands in a single hist entry
shopt -s cdable_vars # if cd arg is not a dir, assume it is a var
shopt -s checkwinsize # check the window size after each command
shopt -s no_empty_cmd_completion # don't try to complete empty cmds

# enable coloured man pages
export LESS_TERMCAP_mb=$'\E[01;31m'
export LESS_TERMCAP_md=$'\E[01;31m'
export LESS_TERMCAP_me=$'\E[0m'
export LESS_TERMCAP_se=$'\E[0m'
export LESS_TERMCAP_so=$'\E[01;44;33m'
export LESS_TERMCAP_ue=$'\E[0m'
export LESS_TERMCAP_us=$'\E[01;32m'

# define some colours
GREY=$'\033[1;30m'
RED=$'\033[1;31m'
GREEN=$'\033[1;32m'
YELLOW=$'\033[1;33m'
BLUE=$'\033[1;34m'
MAGENTA=$'\033[1;35m'
CYAN=$'\033[1;36m'
WHITE=$'\033[1;37m'
NONE=$'\033[m'

# random grep colour
export GREP_COLOR="1;3$((RANDOM%6+1))"
export GREP_OPTIONS='--color=auto'

# path for directories
export CDPATH=".:..:../..:~/:~/dev/"

# file containing hosts
export HOSTFILE=~/.hosts

# source everything else
. ~/.bash_prompt
. ~/.bash_completion
. ~/.bash_aliases
. ~/.bash_functions

# trap commands to display on the xterm titlebar. Must be last line.
trap 'echo -ne "\033]0;$BASH_COMMAND - $USER@${HOSTNAME}>$(pwd)\007"' DEBUG

Sunday, March 06, 2011

My Bash Profile - Part I

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