Bash
Category: Open Source — redwards @ 4:26 pm
I have recently been doing a fair bit of work on some DNS/DHCP appliances that are based on a version of RHEL, as a result I have started to use the Bash shell alot more. In the past on Solaris and HP-UX I have resorted to using KSH and had configured my .profile to pretty much work how I needed.
Although if I really wanted I am sure I could carry on using KSH and update the .profile to work with the RHEL boxes, however how boring. I decided to use Bash (various reason) I thought that I should probably get it to work exactly how I want, so here is my journy.
########### Source global definitions ################ if [ -f /etc/bashrc ]; then . /etc/bashrc fi ############# set the prompt ########################## # uncomment out 1 and only one below.... # this is hostname and time #PS1="\h-(\@): " # this is hostname and history number #PS1="\h-(\!)# " # this is hostname and current working directory PS1="\h-(\w)# " # this is hostname and shortened current working directory #PS1="\h-(\W)# " ############# path manipulation ####################### # add ~/bin to the path, cwd as well PATH="$PATH:$HOME/bin:./" ################# env variables ####################### # make sure that you change this to your username MAIL="/afs/<a href="http://umbc.edu/users/u/s/username/Mail/inbox" target="_blank">umbc.edu/users/u/s/username/Mail/inbox</a>" export PATH unset USERNAME ###### User specific aliases and functions ############