Blog Archives

Share PATH, aliases and functions between Bash and Zsh

Posted on July 31, 2012 by Geekster — No Comments ↓

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…

Tagged with: bash, bash trick, bash tricks, bash vs zsh, share aliases between zsh and bash, share CDPATH between zsh and bash, share functions between zsh and bash, share PATH between zsh and bash, shell trick, zsh, zsh trick, zsh tricks
Posted in The Linux and Unix Articles!

The bash !$ trick: Insert the last argument of the previous command in the current command

Posted on July 27, 2012 by Geekster — No Comments ↓

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…

Tagged with: bash, bash trick, bash tricks, csh, ksh, linux, shell trick, tcsh, tcsh trick, the bash shell tricks, unix, zsh, zsh trick
Posted in The Linux and Unix Articles!

How to cd into a directory only by typing the directory name

Posted on July 3, 2012 by Geekster — No Comments ↓

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…

Tagged with: autocd, bash, bash trick, bash tricks, linux, shell trick, unix, zsh, zsh trick
Posted in The Linux and Unix Articles!