Sharing the aliases, customized PS1 (prompt), functions and PATH/CDPATH between the zsh and bash shells is very usefull. To my mind, the cleanest way to do this is to create a new file, having the portable shell settings stored there…
The !$ trick works on bash, csh, tcsh and zsh, but does not work on ksh. The !$ trick is very usefull in the Linux and Unix shells. In the Bash shell, the !$ inserts (and expands) the last used…
In this article I will show my favourite bash tricks. Because I am very lazy, I adore all the dirty tricks that can make my bash usage easier. 1-2 : The PATH and the CDPATH. The PATH and CDPATH are…
In this article I will show you two bash inputrc tricks. The first one is: set show-all-if-ambiguous on. Add this to your ~/.inputrc file because it is very usefull. When pressing TAB for command completion, all the matches will be…
The bash reverse-i-search is very usefull when needing to lookup for a command in the history. Press Ctrl – R and you get this: (reverse-i-search)`’: Type parts of the command you need to find and bash will give you the…
In this article I will show you how to cd into a directory by only typing the directory name. To do this, you have to activate the autocd. For bash: shopt -s autocd $ ls -ld naboo drwxrwxr-x 2 razvan…
In the previous wildcard post, I taught you how to use the asterisk * and the question mark ? wildcards. This article is about other, not so popular wildcards: the square brackets [ ] and the curly brackets {}. Note:…
The PATH is an environment variable that tells the shell where to look for the basic executables (commands) you use (such as ping, useradd, etc). Setting a new PATH depends on the shell, not on the Linux or Unix distro.…
There are a few bash shortcuts (tricks), that make my life easier every day. One of my favourite bash tricks is !! . !! relaunches the last used command. The benefit of the !! is that it can be combined…
The CDPATH is an environment variable, just like PATH. It is used to cd directly in the folders you add in your CDPATH. By default, your CDPATH is empty but you can easily set it, as you like. Difference between…