Package:Bash

Bash

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This is the ebuild for bash, the standard shell for Funtoo Linux systems.

Bash is the GNU Project's Bourne Again SHell, a complete implementation of the IEEE POSIX and Open Group shell specification with interactive command line editing, job control on architectures that support it, csh-like features such as history substitution and brace expansion, and a slew of other features. [1]

Learning Bash

The following articles, written originally for IBM developerWorks by Daniel Robbins, serve as an excellent introduction to the bash shell:

• Bash by Example, Part 1
• Bash by Example, Part 2
• Bash by Example, Part 3

Moving on Command Line

Shortcut	Description
Tab	Autocomplete
Ctrl + r	Search as you type from lastlog
Ctrl + a	Move to the start of line
Ctrl + e	Move to the end of line
Ctrl + k	Cut from cursor to the end of line
Ctrl + w	Cut from cursor to the previous whitespace
Ctrl + c	Clear line
Ctrl + l	Clear screen
Alt + f	Move one word forward
Alt + b	Move one word backwards
Alt + d	Cut from cursor to the end of word
Alt + backspace	Cut from cursor to the start of word

Bash Completion

See bash completion page.

Configuration Files

~/.bashrc

~/.bashrc gets loaded on bash startup. You can source files, put aliases, functions and export variables there.

   ~/.bashrc (bash source code) - bash runtime configuration

source /etc/profile.d/bash-completion.sh

export EDITOR="vim"

alias mv='mv -v'
alias cp='cp -v'
alias rm='rm -v'
alias ping='ping -c 5'
alias emerge='emerge --ask-enter-invalid -av'
#unalias emerge to make it behave normally again

alias e='emerge'
alias eu='emerge -uavDN --with-bdeps=y @world'

alias used='cat  ~/.bash_history | sort | uniq -c | sort -n'

calculator() {
        echo "$@" | bc
}

Path

Any file within your path will be able to utilize tab completion and can be run with out ./ You can see what paths are set by running:

root # echo $PATH

Process Management

to run a command and have it keep running regardless of killing the terminal:

root # nohup command

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