post your .bashrc, or whichever preferred shell.

[gcampton]

I'm curious what people put in their .bashrc I have a couple little extra bits I usually put in. Spam up up and AWAY!

# Start .bashrc
# G.Campton
##############################
#
##############################
# Source global definitions
##############################

if [ -f /etc/bashrc ]; then
        . /etc/bashrc 
fi
##############################
## SHELL OPTIONS
##############################
# umask is set to ensure that newly created files
# and directories are only writable by the owner,
# but reading and executing by anyone. (chmod 755)
# umask 022 
##############################

# Use case-insensitive filename globbing
 shopt -s nocaseglob

# Make bash append rather than overwrite the history on disk
 shopt -s histappend

# When changing directory small typos can be ignored by bash
# for example, cd /vr/lgo/apaache would find /var/log/apache
 shopt -s cdspell

# Completion options
# ##################
# These completion tuning parameters change the default behavior of bash_completion:

# Define to access remotely checked-out files over passwordless ssh for CVS
# COMP_CVS_REMOTE=1

# Define to avoid stripping description in --option=description of './configure --help'
 COMP_CONFIGURE_HINTS=1

# Define to avoid flattening internal contents of tar files
 COMP_TAR_INTERNAL_PATHS=1

# If this shell is interactive, turn on programmable completion enhancements.
# Any completions you add in ~/.bash_completion are sourced last.
# case $- in
#   *i*) [[ -f /etc/bash_completion ]] && . /etc/bash_completion ;;
# esac

# History Options
# ###############

# Don't put duplicate lines in the history.
 export HISTCONTROL="ignoredups"

# Whenever displaying the prompt, write the previous line to disk
 export PROMPT_COMMAND="history -a"

# Aliases
# #######

# Some example alias instructions
# If these are enabled they will be used instead of any instructions
# they may mask.  For example, alias rm='rm -i' will mask the rm
# application.  To override the alias instruction use a \ before, ie
# \rm will call the real rm not the alias.

# Interactive operation...
 alias rm='rm -v'
 alias cp='cp -v'
 alias mv='mv -v'
 alias ls='pwd; ls -alhF --color=auto'

# Misc :)
 alias whence='type -a'                        # where, of a sort
 alias which='type -a'
 alias man='man -a'

# Print out some path variables.
alias path='echo -e ${PATH//:/\\n}'
alias libpath='echo -e ${LD_LIBRARY_PATH//:/\\n}'

# Some shortcuts for different directory listings  ( if you like remembering list calls )
# alias ls='ls -hF --color=tty'                 # classify files in colour
# alias dir='ls --color=auto --format=vertical'
# alias vdir='ls --color=auto --format=long'
# alias ll='ls -l'                              # long list
# alias la='ls -A'                              # all but . and ..
# alias l='ls -CF'                              #


##############################
## FUNCTION DEFINITIONS
##############################
# Some example functions
function settitle() { echo -ne "\e]2;$@\a\e]1;$@\a"; }

# move filenames to lowercase
function lowercase() 
{
    for file ; do
        filename=${file##*/}
        case "$filename" in
        */*) dirname==${file%/*} ;;
        *) dirname=.;;
        esac
        nf=$(echo $filename | tr A-Z a-z)
        newname="${dirname}/${nf}"
        if [ "$nf" != "$filename" ]; then
            mv "$file" "$newname"
            echo "lowercase: $file --> $newname"
        else
            echo "lowercase: $file not changed."
        fi
    done
}

# Swap 2 filenames around, if they exist
function swap()  
{               
    local TMPFILE=tmp.$$ 

    [ $# -ne 2 ] && echo "swap: 2 arguments needed" && return 1
    [ ! -e $1 ] && echo "swap: $1 does not exist" && return 1
    [ ! -e $2 ] && echo "swap: $2 does not exist" && return 1

    mv -v "$1" $TMPFILE 
    mv -v "$2" "$1"
    mv -v $TMPFILE "$2"
	echo "Done: $1 & $2 switched filenames!!!"
}

# Extract Program.
function extract()      
{
     if [ -f $1 ] ; then
         case $1 in
             *.tar.bz2)   tar xvjf $1     ;;
             *.tar.gz)    tar xvzf $1     ;;
             *.bz2)       bunzip2 $1      ;;
             *.rar)       unrar x $1      ;;
             *.gz)        gunzip $1       ;;
             *.tar)       tar xvf $1      ;;
             *.tbz2)      tar xvjf $1     ;;
             *.tgz)       tar xvzf $1     ;;
             *.zip)       unzip $1        ;;
             *.Z)         uncompress $1   ;;
             *.7z)        7z x $1         ;;
             *)           echo "'$1' cannot be extracted via >extract<" ;;
         esac
     else
         echo "'$1' is not a valid file"
     fi
}


# Local Variables:
# mode:shell-script
# sh-shell:bash
# [End of file] ~/.bashrc: */

[chrisname]

I'm too lazy to change mine. All I've done is customized the prompt to have colours :)

[gcampton]

Well it's very possible to port most console small C apps over to bash and use as functions.
I might do a translation of your code to bash just for the heck of it, I haven't done any in months so I should do something before I forget it all.

[Duthomhas]

Heh heh heh, here you go.

@echo off
d:
cd \
set path=d:\bin;%PATH%
set dircmd=/ogn
set LS_OPTIONS=-bhACp --streams
doskey >nul
doskey cp=copy $*
doskey lesss=less -S $*
doskey deltree=rd /s/q $*
doskey vi=notepad $*
doskey dird=dir /ad /d $*
doskey python=C:\PROGRA~1\Python25\python.exe $*
doskey pythonw=C:\PROGRA~1\Python25\pythonw.exe $*
title Prompt
echo on

Anything else is in either the D:\bin directory or in the existing Windows PATH.

I keep a number of batch files in D:\bin that make programs usable on demand. For example:

    gcc.bat

@set PATH=C:\PROGRA~1\MinGW\bin;%PATH%
@gcc %*

I also tend to use Marko Bozikovic's Console program.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/console/

As for Linux, I tried to update my Kubuntu and the update hosed my system. I need to reinstall, but all I ever do to .profile is just make a bunch of little aliases that makes stuff easy to type.

That and some tweaks to /etc/fstab and to grub (for my own bg image) and to the system startup scripts (to make pure-text consoles available).

[chrisname]

For windows, I just added C:\tools\bin (mingw and cygwin install folder) to my Path.

[gcampton]

yea same, C:\cygwin\bin and C:\cygwin\usr\bin and C:\cygwin\home\Garratt\bin to windows environment.

So those are batch scripts Duoas? never done any batch scripting... looks easy enough.
I suppose it's not necessary to do up a bash version of small apps like that as you can just throw them in the bin folder and they still exec anywhere, but I like doing it because I can make them very portable with the 1 .bashrc file. just turning them into functions within my profile.

[chrisname]

It's not exactly a .bashrc (mine's virtually the defualt one, with the additional condition that when it's a login shell and on TTY1 it executes startx (actually, gnome-session, which implies startx anyway)) but I created these two scripts to help with loop device mounting; 'cause before I kept getting it wrong and I couldn't free the loop devices.

/usr/bin/mountloop

#!/bin/sh

LOOPDEV_FILE=/tmp/loopdev

if [[ $# < 2 ]]; then
    echo -e "Usage: $0 <file> <mount point>\n"
    exit
fi

LOOPDEV=`losetup -f` # Get the first free loop device

echo "$LOOPDEV" >$LOOPDEV_FILE # So that umountloop can find which
                               # device to delete

losetup $LOOPDEV $1 # Loop the file on the loop device
mount $LOOPDEV $2   # Mount the device

exit 0

/usr/bin/umountloop

#!/bin/sh

LOOPDEV_FILE=/tmp/loopdev

if [[ ! -e $LOOPDEV_FILE]]; then
    echo -e "Error: no loop device descriptor file found at $LOOPDEV_FILE"
    exit
fi

read LOOPDEV <$LOOPDEV_FILE

umount $LOOPDEV
losetup -d $LOOPDEV

rm $LOOPDEV_FILE
exit 0