Make bash more useful and fun

[Amber]

http://bashish.sourceforge.net/

http://www.caliban.org/bash/index.shtml

[Jackiebrown]

My favorite debian specific one is

echo '. /etc/bash_completion' >> ~/.bashrc

adds autocompletion to bash for debian commands and packages

[juasiepo]

My favorite debian specific one is

echo '. /etc/bash_completion' >> ~/.bashrc

adds autocompletion to bash for debian commands and packages

Or you can also uncomment these lines in /etc/bash.bashrc file
# enable bash completion in interactive shells
if [ -f /etc/bash_completion ]; then
. /etc/bash_completion
fi

[garrincha]

1. Getting Started with BASH
A Bash Tutorial:

http://www.hypexr.org/bash_tutorial.php

2. Linux Shell Scripting Tutorial v1.05r3
A Beginner's handbook:

http://www.freeos.com/guides/lsst/

3. Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide
An in-depth exploration of the art of shell scripting:

http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/

Enjoy!:)

[ingo]

Wow, I've always wanted to know about command line stuff - some of the links are real eye-openers which will take a while to digest

[oliver]

my two favourite tips:

1) add the following to /etc/inputrc and hitting "$ cd <tab><tab>" won't show all the dot files

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set match-hidden-files off

2) Add the following to /etc/profile (or wherever you want) to stop a resized terminal from overwriting the old text

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shopt -s checkwinsize