Tag Archives: shell

Cleaning up bash customizations

Posted on 23 October 2007 by meta

One of the things I found confusing about bash was its startup scripts: there were so many of them. Eventually I snapped and sat down with a terminal and the man pages, and worked out how it actually behaves. Here’s … Continue reading →

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Unix shell games with KDE

Posted on 24 May 2006 by meta

One feature the Unix shell offers is customizing prompts. Most ‘power users’ make use of the feature, and it is indeed very handy. However, it’s easy to go completely overboard and end up with a prompt like this: [21:52:15] [fred@webhost:/var/log/apache] … Continue reading →

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End of an era

Posted on 8 November 2003 by meta

I did something traumatic: I switched shells. I’d been using tcsh for years, and before that csh, because… well, at the time I started using UNIX, the alternatives were all wretched. But as of version 2.05ish, bash has finally surpassed … Continue reading →

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