HOWTO setup a small server

BASH (Bourne-again shell)

Configuration of libreadline

There are some ways to make BASH even more comfortable. In order to search its history with the “page up”/“page down” key, uncomment or add the following lines in libreadline's configuration:

Excerpt: `/etc/inputrc`

"\e[5~": history-search-backward
"\e[6~": history-search-forward

Configuration of BASH

Further useful features can be enabled by creating the follwing file (see comments for details)

File: `/etc/bash.always`

#
# this file is sourced (not executed) by /etc/profile
# and /etc/bash.bashrc
#

# history size
export HISTSIZE=10000

# do not save commands with leading space in .bash_history
export HISTIGNORE=" *"

# make cd to some directory in "$CDPATH" work from everywhere
# without full path (uncomment to enable)
#export CDPATH="~"

# correct spelling errors in cd commands
shopt -s cdspell

# disable hash function (always search $PATH for commands)
set +h

# colorized ls
export LS_OPTIONS='--color=auto'
eval "`dircolors`"
alias ls='ls $LS_OPTIONS'
alias ll='ls $LS_OPTIONS -l'
alias l='ls $LS_OPTIONS -lA'

# start pico/nano with "-w" option
# (to avoid destroyed config files!)
alias pico='pico -w'
alias nano='nano -w'

and appending the following lines to the BASH configuration:

Excerpt: `/etc/bash.bashrc` and `/etc/profile`

# source /etc/bash.always
if [ -f /etc/bash.always ]; then
  . /etc/bash.always
fi

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