My .bashrc

Download and install

Everything is in bashrc.tar.gz. Untarrring the file will produce .bash_login, .bashrc and acd_func.sh. To permit future updates, provide your own custom .bashrc2 instead of editing .bashrc from the archive.

What is in my '.bashrc'

Useful path, ls, df, du, ls, cp, and mv replacemend aliases
xterm replacement alias that will set proper fonts
grep color option is activated if supported
a prompt (red prompt for root)
Modified cd with history stack
Binds arrow up and arrow down to search history with mask
Binds space key to expand '!' expressions
Binds Alt+R to list history by mask
Binds Alt+K to put unexecuted command line to history
Binds Ctrl+X,PgUp to show the last few commands from history
Binds Ctrl+T to open a new xterm window
Assigns key bindings for convenient work in xterm under cygwin
Ctrl+D will not exit the session
Command history is configured to be shared between sessions
Directories in ls displayed in bold
Ctrl+S is not xoff
Activates extended tab completions
Maintains relevant window title for xterm, cygwin and screen
xtitle function for manual set of window title
path_once function for manipulation of $PATH
Check .bashrc sources in a convenient html format (autogenerated in vim)

Countless times I have been exposed to the elements without my faithful '.bashrc'. No more.

X11 clipboard and Bash

If you ever wanted to copy the contents of a file into the clipboard you might like xclip. This is similar to the concept of 'clip:' from 4NT -- a virtual device name representing the clipboard that you can redirect to or from. For example:

lotzman@safe$ cat .bashrc | xlip
lotzman@safe$ xclip -o > bashrc_copy

First line sends .bashrc to the X11 clipboard. Then from clipboard we output to bashrc_copy. There are more options in the man page of xclip.

On Debian, if xclip is not already installed, try "apt-get install xclip".

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