Basic bash customization
Bash is my favorite shell when it comes to servers administration. I usually configure bash with some tweaks to make my life easier, the following lines can be placed on your ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bashrc:
Everything seems pretty easy, doesn’t it? Well, I’ll explain a little bit about the PATH setup:
export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/bin"This will add ~/bin to your PATH so you can place there any script or binary file and execute/use it from anywhere.
If you want to learn more, go ahead and take a look at the Bash Beginners Guide.