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# bashrc
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Some Bash improvements to add into your .bashrc config
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Some Bash improvements to add into your `.bashrc` config file
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# Instructions
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Append the configurations in `bashrc.txt` to your `.bashrc` configuration file in your home directory.
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# Improvements
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These are the quality of life enhancements contained in this `.bashrc` template
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## History
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* Increase the history file size
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* Format `history` command output to include a timestamp of when the command was run
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* Make it less likely that multiple Bash sessions for the same user will clobber each other's history
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## Up-arrow History Completion
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* Typing part of a command and pressing up/down will scroll through previous runs of the command from your Bash history
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## Shell colors and prompt formatting
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* Make your default Bash prompt a bit easier to parse, colorize it, and colorize specific output in your shell
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![A preview of the Bash shell when these .bashrc settings are applied](bash-screenshot.png "Bash Screenshot")

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