Back in the day, I aliased "banish" to "kill -9". I also aliased "smite" to "kill". Sounded nicer and geekier. :-)
-- Kyle Gonzales Sent from my mobile On Oct 23, 2010, at 12:42 PM, "William L. Thomson Jr." <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 2010-10-22 at 00:55 -0400, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: >> >> Speaking of Bash from a developers perspective, I was not aware of the >> HISTIGNORE and HISTCONTROL features of bash, till Rob's presentation. :) > > Turns out the HISTIGNORE is not so ideal. It also prevents the command > from being in any history, which means you can't use the up arrow for > the previous command :( Not sure if any other bash tricks to re-invoke > the previous command would work. > >> Going one step further, Kyle mentioned a hack/trick to not write your >> current Bash history to the ~/.bash_history file. Kill the shell instead >> of exiting it normally. In the spirit of that, a easy way to do that is >> the following >> >> kill -9 $BASHPID > > In light of the above, and using something Rob also mentioned in his > presentation, the alias feature of Bash. I went ahead and added the > following alias to my ~/.bash_profile > > alias bye="kill -9 $BASHPID" > > That way instead of typing exit, I can just type bye, and it will kill > my bash session and nuke any history :) > > Also another topic Rob covered was Bash completion. Did you know what > works for Bash variables as well as other things? > > Try it out, just type the dollar sign at a terminal and hit tab. > > $<Tab> > > Of course that requires bash completion, which might be an add on > package to Bash. Check around in your distro's packages for other bash > packages. > > -- > William L. Thomson Jr. > Obsidian-Studios, Inc. > http://www.obsidian-studios.com > > This message (including any attachments) contains confidential > information intended for a specific individual and purpose, and is > protected by law. If you are not the intended recipient, you should > delete this message. > > Any disclosure, copying, or distribution of this message, or the taking > of any action based on it, is strictly prohibited. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 > RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml > Unsubscribe [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml Unsubscribe [email protected]
