dotfiles

commit d00c628ed89089c5ea68d8e759fe81aa23c911f4 (patch)
parent 11256d8f946690f4dff5145ff1a73ed7ff517ee3
Author: Alexander Karle <akarle@umass.edu>
Date:   Wed,  2 May 2018 02:58:27 -0400

Update README to fix install bug

Also adding some bash settings from default .bashrc

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README.md
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bash/bashrc
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2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ My dotfiles.
 
 ## Install
 
+Note that bash is required for this install (as some of the interactive options depend on bash).
+
 ```
-curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/akarle/dotfiles/master/install.sh | bash
+bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/akarle/dotfiles/master/install.sh)"
 ```
diff --git a/bash/bashrc b/bash/bashrc
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+# If not running interactively, don't do anything
+[ -z "$PS1" ] && return
+
 # if interactive shell, disable XON/XOFF to allow forward search w CTRL-S
 [[ $- == *i* ]] && stty -ixon
 
@@ -6,3 +9,18 @@ for file in ~/.{bash_path,bash_prompt,bash_exports,aliases}; do
   [ -r "$file" ] && source "$file"
 done
 unset file
+
+# don't put duplicate lines or lines starting with space in the history.
+# See bash(1) for more options
+HISTCONTROL=ignoreboth
+
+# append to the history file, don't overwrite it
+shopt -s histappend
+
+# for setting history length see HISTSIZE and HISTFILESIZE in bash(1)
+HISTSIZE=1000
+HISTFILESIZE=2000
+
+# check the window size after each command and, if necessary,
+# update the values of LINES and COLUMNS.
+shopt -s checkwinsize