while-true-do/bash-behaviour

Some Adjustments for Bash, to provide a better behaviour.

While True Do - bash-behaviour

| Some Adjustments for Bash, to provide an improved behaviour.

Motivation

Bash is a very nice shell. Unfortunately, it needs some tuning. At least in our case, it is more useful with some adjustments.

Features

To get an overview of all features, you should check the script itself. It has a ton of comments in it. Some of the improvements are:

• Enhance tab completion in many ways
• Tune the behaviour of history appendings
• Enable colors for common commands
• Add some aliases for common commands

Requirements

The script is tested under:

• RedHat 7.x
• CentOS 7.x
• Fedora 25+
• SLES 12+
• Arch Linux 2018+
• Debian 9.1+

Dependencies

• You have to use bash
• The adjustments can work as a stand-alone, but you should consider to have a look at the bash-rpompt.

Installation

Manual Installation

You can run the installer as root for global installation or as a user for installation in your home directory.

1. Please Download the release package from https://github.com/while-true-do/bash-behaviour/releases
2. Unpack it via unzip
3. Make the installer executable chmod +x install.sh
4. Run the installer ./install.sh

Ansible Installation

For CentOS, there is a role you can use for the installation.

Testing

Currently the script is tested manually via shellcheck. An automation is not present.

Contribute / Bugs

Thank you so much for considering to contribute. Every contribution helps us. We are really happy, when somebody is joining the hard work. Please have a look at the links first.

• Code of Conduct
• Contribution Guidelines
• Create an issue or Request
• See who was contributing already

License

This work is licensed under a BSD License.

Author Information

Site: while-true-do.org

Mail: [email protected]

bash-behaviour's Issues

Behaviour of ls with symlinks

Type of Report

Enhancement

Actual behaviour

ls shows directories first. This is a good idea on graphical user interfaces, but is not so nice with symlinks, which seems to be files anyway.

Expected behaviour

The "normal" alphabetical ordering should be enabled per default.

Readme needs some love

Type of Report

Bug

Actual behaviour

Readme is outdated

Expected behaviour

New links and stuff should be shown.

Alias tunings + new opts

Type of Report

Enhancement

Actual behaviour

Some aliases are quite default or impacting a good UX.

ll -> currently shows a lot details like ls -la

Expected behaviour

ll -> show a list of files without details
shopt -s checkjobs -> check background jobs before exiting an interactive shell
watch -> should show differences per default