DXSBash: A Powerful Bash Shell Customization for Pros

DXSBash: A Powerful Bash Shell Customization for Pros

If you’re a professional looking to optimize your Bash shell experience, the DXSBash repository offers a fully customizable, feature-packed .bashrc configuration. It streamlines your terminal setup with an array of useful tools and tweaks designed to enhance productivity and streamline workflows.

Key Features of DXSBash:

Advanced Aliases and Functions: Quickly access tools like cp, extract, and cpp with custom aliases and progress bars.
Prompt and History Management: Automatically saves command history and optimizes it with helpful settings.
Editor & System-Specific Aliases: Easily switch between editors (like nvim) and configure system-specific aliases based on your distro.
Safety and Navigation: Enjoy safer file operations with trash instead of rm and shortcuts for easy directory navigation.

How to install automatically

git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/digitalxs/dxsbash.git
cd dxsbash
chmod +x setup.sh
./setup.sh

Note: also use command install_bashrc_support to check for any dependecy missing.

How to install manually

Copy and/or create file .bashrc and replace on users home folder.
Log off or use command source .bashrc to activate new customized shell.
Use command install_bashrc_support to install all necessary software to run with this shell

Initial Setup and System Checks

Environment Checks: The script checks if it is running in an interactive mode and sets up the environment accordingly.
System Utilities: It checks for the presence of utilities like fastfetch, bash-completion, and system-specific configurations (/etc/bashrc).

Aliases and Functions

Aliases: Shortcuts for common commands are set up to enhance productivity. For example, alias cp='cp -i' makes the cp command interactive, asking for confirmation before overwriting files.
Functions: Custom functions for complex operations like extract() for extracting various archive types, and cpp() for copying files with a progress bar.

Prompt Customization and History Management

Prompt Command: The PROMPT_COMMAND variable is set to automatically save the command history after each command.
History Control: Settings to manage the size of the history file and how duplicates are handled.

System-Specific Aliases and Settings

Editor Settings: Sets nvim (NeoVim) as the default editor.
Conditional Aliases: Depending on the system type (like Fedora), it sets specific aliases, e.g., replacing cat with bat.

Enhancements and Utilities

Color and Formatting: Enhancements for command output readability using colors and formatting for tools like ls, grep, and man.
Navigation Shortcuts: Aliases to simplify directory navigation, e.g., alias ..='cd ..' to go up one directory.
Safety Features: Aliases for safer file operations, like using trash instead of rm for deleting files, to prevent accidental data loss.
Extensive Zoxide support: Easily navigate with z, zi, or pressing Ctrl+f to launch zi to see frequently used navigation directories.

Advanced Functions

System Information: Functions to display system information like distribution() to identify the Linux distribution.
Networking Utilities: Tools to check internal and external IP addresses.
Resource Monitoring: Commands to monitor system resources like disk usage and open ports.

Installation and Configuration Helpers

Auto-Install: A function install_bashrc_support() to automatically install necessary utilities based on the system type.
Configuration Editors: Functions to edit important configuration files directly, e.g., apacheconfig() for Apache server configurations.

Alias’s for SSH alias SERVERNAME=’ssh YOURWEBSITE.com -l USERNAME -p PORTNUMBERHERE’

Commands +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Update system

install [package] – updates all repositories and software update – updates all repositories and software upgrade – upgrade distro remove [package name] – remove specified package removeall [package name] – purge specified package (removes config files too) historypkg – show history of installs searchpkg – search packages

General Alias

alert [text] – Add an “alert” alias for long running commands. Use like so: sleep 10; alert ebrc – edit this .bashrc hlp – Show help for this .bashrc file – UNDER development da – Show date password – generate list of random passwords

Alias to modified commands

cp=’cp -i’ – copy mv=’mv -i’ – move rm=’rm -iv’ – remove delete=’rm -rfi’ – remove with options mkdir=’mkdir -p’ – create directory ps=’ps auxf’ ping=’ping -c 10′ less=’less -R’ cls=’clear’ apt-get=’sudo apt-get’ – escalates privileges multitail=’multitail –no-repeat -c’ freshclam=’sudo freshclam’ – update anti-virus vi=’vim’ – editor vim svi=’sudo vi’ vis=’vim “+set si”‘

Git related commands

gs=’git status’ gc=’git commit’ ga=’git add’ gd=’git diff’ gb=’git branch’ gl=’git log’ gsb=’git show-branch’ gco=’git checkout’ gg=’git grep’ gk=’gitk –all’ gr=’git rebase’ gri=’git rebase –interactive’ gcp=’git cherry-pick’ grm=’git rm’

Change directory aliases

home=’cd ~’ cd..=’cd ..’ ..=’cd ..’ …=’cd ../..’ ….=’cd ../../..’ …..=’cd ../../../..’

cd into the old directory

bd=’cd “$OLDPWD”‘

Remove a directory and all files

rmd=’/bin/rm –recursive –force –verbose ‘

Alias’s for multiple directory listing commands

la=’ls -Alh’ # show hidden files ls=’ls -aFh –color=always’ # add colors and file type extensions lx=’ls -lXBh’ # sort by extension lk=’ls -lSrh’ # sort by size lc=’ls -lcrh’ # sort by change time lu=’ls -lurh’ # sort by access time lr=’ls -lRh’ # recursive ls lt=’ls -ltrh’ # sort by date lm=’ls -alh |more’ # pipe through ‘more’ lw=’ls -xAh’ # wide listing format ll=’ls -Fls’ # long listing format labc=’ls -lap’ #alphabetical sort lf=”ls -l | egrep -v ‘^d'” # files only ldir=”ls -l | egrep ‘^d'” # directories only

alias chmod commands

alias mx=’chmod a+x’ alias 000=’chmod -R 000′ alias 644=’chmod -R 644′ alias 666=’chmod -R 666′ alias 755=’chmod -R 755′ alias 777=’chmod -R 777′

Search command line history

h=”history | grep “

#Use this for when the boss comes around to look busy. busy=”cat /dev/urandom | hexdump -C | grep ‘ca fe'”

#Show active ports ports=’netstat -tulanp’

Search running processes

alias p=”ps aux | grep ” alias topcpu=”/bin/ps -eo pcpu,pid,user,args | sort -k 1 -r | head -10″

Search files in the current folder

alias f=”find . | grep “

Count all files (recursively) in the current folder

countfiles=”for t in files links directories; do echo `find . -type ${t:0:1} | wc -l` $t; done 2> /dev/null”

To see if a command is aliased, a file, or a built-in command

checkcommand=”type -t”

Show open ports

openports=’netstat -nape –inet’

Alias’s for safe and forced reboots

restart=’sudo shutdown -r now’ forcerestart=’sudo shutdown -r -n now’

Alias’s to show disk space and space used in a folder

diskspace=”du -S | sort -n -r |more” folders=’du -h –max-depth=1′ folderssort=’find . -maxdepth 1 -type d -print0 | xargs -0 du -sk | sort -rn’ tree=’tree -CAhF –dirsfirst’ treed=’tree -CAFd’ mountedinfo=’df -hT’

Alias’s for archives

mktar=’tar -cvf’ mkbz2=’tar -cvjf’ mkgz=’tar -cvzf’ untar=’tar -xvf’ unbz2=’tar -xvjf’ ungz=’tar -xvzf’

Show all logs in /var/log

SHA1

ungz=’tar -xvzf’

Special functions

edit – Use the best version of pico installed sedit – extract – Extracts any archive(s) ftext – Searches for text in all files in the current folder cpp – copy file with a progress bar cpg – copy and go to the directory mvg – move and go to the directory mkdirg – create and go to the directory up – Goes up a specified number of directories (i.e. up 4) pwdtail – Returns the last 2 fields of the working directory distribution – Show the current distribution (ERROR) ver – version (ERROR) install_bashrc_support – Automatically install the needed support files for this .bashrc file netinfo – show current network information (ERROR) whatismyip – show my IP address (ERROR) apachelog – view apache logs apacheconfig – edit apache configuration phpconfig – edit php configuration file (ERROR) mysqlconfig – edit MySQL configuration trim – Trim leading and trailing spaces (for scripts)

How to Revert and Uninstall DXSBash

If you want to uninstall thais bash customization, just check the instructions here.

ByLuis Miguel P. Freitas