bash-sensible

I love this blog and learned so much about the Unix toolkit and the philosophy behind it by reading it. Too bad it doesn’t seem to be much active anymore, but there’s a lot of great material in the archives that pretty much never gets old since its focused mostly on standard Unix software. The author (Tom Ryder) is an very talented writer with a clear and concise style. A couple of plugs for your consideration: - I integrated all of these history options in my project Sensible Bash [1], an attempt at saner Bash defaults - I made an ebook [2] out of a series which appeared on this blog, titled “Unix as IDE”. [1]: https://github.com/mrzool/bash-sensible [2]: https://github.com/mrzool/unix-as-ide

I also log date/time with each command. Sensible bash provides this: https://github.com/mrzool/bash-sensible

ICYMI: Sensible Bash addresses this well: https://github.com/mrzool/bash-sensible

I took the bash-history related stuff from https://github.com/mrzool/bash-sensible and have been VERY happy with it. Among other things, it makes sure all your histories from various open terminals get merged, not overwrite each other -- I think maybe just `shopt -s histappend` is enough for that? But I was messing around with my settings regarding history settings for a while tweaking and tweaking, until I found bash-sensible, tried it out cut and paste, and found it was perfect. ## SANE HISTORY DEFAULTS ## # Append to the history file, don't overwrite it shopt -s histappend # Save multi-line commands as one command shopt -s cmdhist # Record each line as it gets issued PROMPT_COMMAND='history -a' # Huge history. Doesn't appear to slow things down, so why not? HISTSIZE=500000 HISTFILESIZE=100000 # Avoid duplicate entries HISTCONTROL="era