Bash Notes

I tried out zsh, but it had too many buggy display bits for my tastes. likely the stuff I was using in conjunction.

So I’ve stuck with bash and build a fairly solid config that works for the way I work.

A great book for learning bash is the O’Reily Learning the bash shell

FILES
       /bin/bash
           The bash executable
       /etc/profile
           The systemwide initialization file, executed for login shells
       ~/.bash_profile
           The personal initialization file, executed for login shells
       ~/.bashrc
           The individual per-interactive-shell startup file
       ~/.bash_logout
           The individual login shell cleanup file, executed when a login shell exits
       ~/.inputrc
           Individual readline initialization file

.bashrc

Historical Matching

This is one of my favorites: ~~~~ if [[ $- == i ]] then bind ’“(https://bitbucket.org/ryan_barrett/dotfiles) forked from michaeljsmalley (His repos do not seem to exist any longer.)