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I go ahead and customize my experience with the Bash shell by modifying the default ~/.bashrc placed in $HOME.

History

Disable truncating Bash history and save it all …

# Unlimited history.
HISTSIZE=
HISTFILESIZE=

Change the history file location because certain bash sessions will still try and truncate ~/.bash_history upon close …

HISTFILE=~/.bash_unlimited_history

Default is to write history at the end of each session, overwriting the existing file with an updated version. If logged in with multiple sessions, only the last session to exit will have its history saved.

Configure the prompt to write to history after every command and append to the history file, don’t overwrite it …

shopt -s histappend
PROMPT_COMMAND="history -a; $PROMPT_COMMAND"

Add a timestamp per entry. Useful for context when viewing logfiles …

HISTTIMEFORMAT="%FT%T  "

Save all lines of a multiple-line command in the same history entry …

shopt -s cmdhist

Reedit a history substitution line if it failed, and edit a recalled history line before executing …

shopt -s histreedit
shopt -s histverify

Don’t put lines starting with space in the history …

HISTCONTROL=ignorespace

Toggle recording history off/on for a current shell …

alias stophistory="set +o history"
alias starthistory="set -o history"

Links: Unlimited bash history, History truncated on each login, and Preserve history in multiple terminal windows

Prompt

I set a two-line prompt (handy when displaying long pathnames), adjust the colour based on HOSTNAME, and if logged in remotely include an ‘ssh-session’ message …

if [[ -n "$SSH_CLIENT" ]]; then
    ssh_message=": ssh-session"
fi
if [ "$color_prompt" = yes ]; then
    #PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h\[\033[00m\]:\[\033[01;34m\]\w\[\033[00m\]\$ '
    PS1="${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\e[35;1m\]\u \[\e[37;1m\]at \[\e[32;1m\]\h\[\e[33;1m\]${ssh_message} \[\e[37;1m\]in \[\e[34;1m\]\w \n\[\e[37;1m\]\$\[\e[0m\] "
else
    PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u@\h:\w\$ '
fi

Aliases and functions

Enable color support of ls and a few handy aliases …

if [ -x /usr/bin/dircolors ]; then
    test -r ~/.dircolors && eval "$(dircolors -b ~/.dircolors)" || eval "$(dircolors -b)"
    alias ls="ls -aFlhv --color=auto"
    alias diff="colordiff"
    alias dir="dir --color=auto"
    alias vdir="vdir --color=auto"
    alias grep="grep --color=auto"
    alias fgrep="fgrep --color=auto"
    alias egrep="egrep --color=auto"
fi

# More aliases and functions.
alias aaa="generatePkgList -d ~/code/debian && sudo apt update && apt list --upgradable && sudo apt full-upgrade && sudo apt autoremove"
alias arst="setxkbmap us && ~/bin/keyboardconf"
alias asdf="setxkbmap us -variant colemak && ~/bin/keyboardconf"
bak() { for f in "$@"; do cp "$f" "$f.$(date +%FT%H%M%S).bak"; done; }
alias df="df -hT --total"
alias dmesg="sudo dmesg"
alias dpkgg="dpkg -l | grep -i"
alias earthview="streamlink http://www.ustream.tv/channel/iss-hdev-payload best &"
alias free="free -h"
alias gpush="git push -u origin master"
alias gsave="git commit -m 'save'"
alias gs="git status"
alias histg="history | grep"
alias mkdir="mkdir -pv"
mtg() { for f in "$@"; do mv "$f" "${f//[^a-zA-Z0-9\.\-]/_}"; done; }
alias pgrep="pgrep -a"
alias poweroff="systemctl poweroff"
alias psg="ps aux | grep -v grep | grep -i -e VSZ -e"
alias reboot="systemctl reboot"
alias shutdown="sudo /sbin/shutdown"
alias tmuxd="tmux -f ~/.tmux.default attach"
alias zzz="sync && systemctl suspend"

Extras

Automatically prepend cd when entering just a path in the shell …

shopt -s autocd

Setup keychain for ssh-agent management …

if [ -x /usr/bin/keychain ]; then
    keychain ~/.ssh/id_rsa
    . ~/.keychain/$HOSTNAME-sh
fi

Disable XON/XOFF flow control …

stty -ixon

… which enables the use of CNTRL-S in other commands. Example: forward search in history, and disabling screen freeze in vim.

Set cursor colour …

if [ -t 1 ]; then
    echo -e "\e]12;red\a"
fi

When happy with the changes, save file and reload the config …

source ~/.bashrc

Source: dot bashrc

Happy hacking!