In this category you’ll find various advanced options regarding history, Bash builtin features and BashStyle-NG specific additions.
If this is set it’s value will be used as a timestamp that will be prepend to
the output of the history builtin. For a detailed list of possible values
refer to man strftime.
There are different ways of history controlling in Bash. This option lets you choose which one to use.
A colon separated list of commands to not log in the history. A good choice is
to add cd and ls to this list, to prevent excessive history
spamming.
This controls how many history entries are saved. 0 for infinite.
This is a BashStyle-NG extension which allows syncronized history over multiple, simultaneously running Bash sessions. It provides custom functions for history controlling as well, so history blacklisting is honoured.
This Section contains settings for BashStyle-NG specific functions and features.
lscd is a BashStyle-NG builtin function which can be used in favour of the
cd Bash builtin. lscd displays the directory content every time you
change the directory, while it allows for custom ls options to be used.
Furthermore it features additional options for creating a directory if it does not exist yet, or for logging the directory currently in after each directory change, together with BashStyle-NG’s option to restore the directory in a new shell you’ll then start in the same directory in a newly started session as the one you’re in the current session.
Those additional options are described next.
treecd is a BashStyle-NG builtin function similar to lscd, but
using tree instead of ls to display the directory content on each
directory change.
When using lscd or treecd in favour of cd, this option
controls whether a directory that does currently not exist is created and then
changed into.
Note: there’s currently only partial permission check done for this feature, it will work when a directory inside an existing directory is created (1 level deep directory paths), deeper nested directories paths are not supported.
Example: if /home/test exists cd /home/test/newdir will succeed,
while cd /home/test/newdir/newsubdir will fail, as /home/test/newdir
does not exist.
When using lscd or treecd in favour of cd, this option
controls what color is used for the banner.
When using lscd or treecd in favour of cd, this option
controls what color is used to indicate a directory is empty.
When using lscd or treecd in favour of cd, this option
controls what color is used to indicate the directory was newly created.
This option saves the last directory upon session exit. When a new session is started, Bash will automatically change into it.
Note: if you’ve enabled either lscd or treecd the directory will
be additionally saved every time you change the directory, allowing you to start
a new shell in your current directory immediately.
Additional options to pass to lscd for displaying the directory content.
All ls options are supported, see ls --help for all possibilites.
Additional options to pass to treecd for displaying the directory content.
All tree options are supported, see tree --help for all possibilites.
dd show progressbar ¶Let the dd utility show a progressbar. This requires coreutils version
8.24 or newer.
dd continue on error ¶Normally the dd utility will abort on the first occurring error. Enabling
this will make dd displaying a warning and continuing it’s work instead.
This is mostly useful when dealing with damaged CDs or thelike.
Character to display in prompt for normal users, for root, it’s always #.
Character to display in prompts that support return code displaying when a command
has succesfully finished, default ✔. On the linux console always +.
Character to display in prompts that support return code displaying when a command
has failed to finish successfully, default ✘. On the linux console always
-.
Character to display in prompts that support return code displaying when a command
has neither return code 0 (success) or 1 (error), default ⊘.
On the linux console always /.
A command to execute upon each new Bash session. This can be any command in
\$PATH. Usually this is something like fortune.
Normally directories are indicated by /, this allows prompts to use a
different character as directory indicator.
Note: this is only a cosmetic change to prompts, where / is replaced by
your choice made here, this has no technical impact on how your OS works.
User’s birthday in MM-DD format. What’s gonna happen that day, I wonder?
BashStyle-NG does several logging upon Bash session start. If you want visible logging enable this option. Usually you don’t need this and thus it’s disabled by default.
Various options for Bash builtin functions and features.
A colon separted list of directories to which’s subdirectories cd can
directly change into. For example if ~/Desktop/myfancydir exists and
~/Desktop is in CDPATH, you can enter this directory from anywhere
by issuing cd myfancydir.
A colon separated list of matches to ignore from completion. For example if
~ is in this list, all backup files like myfile~ will not be shown
upon filename completion.
Bash can automatically log you out after a given time of inactivity (in secons). 0 to disable (default).
Choose the editor for the fc Bash builtin.
A colon separated list of matches to ignore from globbing results. For example
ls -A includes . and .., but if you add both to this
blacklist, ls -A will no longer include them. Use with caution.
A colon separated list of directories containing your systems executable files.
If empty the system-wide PATH variable will be used.
Wether the current directory (.) is appended to the PATH variable.
Options introduced with Bash version 4.4.
Blacklist of binaries not to be executed. For example if *conf is part of
Exec Blacklist, executing autoconf or any other matching binary will be
prevented.