Category: bash

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Making Bash Do Your Work for You

There are a few interesting ideas here and the author has perhaps the same idea that I had - of building a standardized bashrc environment that is powerful and easily customizable. Making Bash Do Your Work for You...

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Great presentation with bash power usage tips

http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2003/papers/bash_tips/index.html

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Don’t lose history in bash

I don't think I've relied too heavily on bash's history feature in the past, because often what I needed to recall wasn't there. The reason why is that if you have multiple bash shells, by default each one rewrites the entire...

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Meta dot in bash

"Meta dot" or Alt+. is a really useful bash shortcut key that I've come to appreciate lately. It brings up the last command-line argument of the last command that you used (sort of like !$ but less of a gamble) and you can hit it...