bash customizing in OS X Leopard
Since I’m using Mac OS X for admin tasks at work I was annoyed about the keymappings and presets in Terminal.app. As bash is the standard shell in Leopard, I missed the settings that I’m accustomed to as a long term Linux user and admin.
If every solution could be so easy. Just create the neccessary config files:
touch ~/.bash_profile
paste the following code in ~/.bash_profile:
if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then source ~/.bashrc fi
touch ~/.bashrc
As usual, you can tweak almost all bash settings in your “~/.bashrc”.
Here are some examples:
# Define how Bash prompt looks like: # # User @ Host - working dir export PS1='\u@\h\w: ' # Cli Colors export CLICOLOR=1 # use bold blue for dir’s export LSCOLORS=Exfxcxdxbxegedabagacad # history handling # # Erase duplicates export HISTCONTROL=erasedups # resize history size export HISTSIZE=5000 # append to bash_history if Terminal.app quits shopt -s histappend alias l='ls -al'
Adapt the keyboard mappings to your needs:
touch ~/.inputrc
The following code shows some example setting for your ~/.inputrc:
# do not bell on tab-completion set bell-style none # set bell-style visible set convert-meta off set input-meta on set output-meta on set show-all-if-ambiguous on set visible-stats on set completion-ignore-case On "\e[1~": beginning-of-line "\e[4~": end-of-line "\e[5~": history-search-backward "\e[6~": history-search-forward "\e[3~": delete-char "\e[2~": quoted-insert "\e[5C": forward-word "\e[5D": backward-word "\e\e[C": forward-word "\e\e[D": backward-word
