Category:Bash

Hotkeys

C-x,C-e   edit in $EDITOR and execute
C-r       search backwards in history
C-p/C-n   browse history

Invocation

Bash shells start in one of two modes:

• login shell

       this executes ~/.bash_profile

• non-login shell

       this executes ~/.bashrc

A remote login system like ssh uses bash_profile A non-interactive session like scp uses bashrc

My configuration has bashrc as a subset of bash_profile, using these lines in bash_profile:

# include .bashrc if it exists
if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
    source ~/.bashrc
fi

References

• Bash Guide for Beginners
• Text Processing Commands: http://www.linux.com/guides/abs-guide/textproc.shtml
• Bash reference manual: http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/bash/bashref_toc.html