moritzrupp / ninjab

A portable (Linux, Mac, BSD) bashrc file for a better bash prompt and other enhancments

ninjab

Features

• Tries to be as cross platform as possible.
• Configuration for the most common needs.
• Will set bash options to make it better to use.
• Tries to turn on bash features which isnt enable as default (but is very usefull)
• Colorizing the output where possible.
• Usefull "smart" bash prompt
• Aliases which tries to save you time and give you more info as default.
• Creates some usefull hotkeys
• Different parts
  • 1_bash
  • 3_aliases
  • 4_prompt
  • 5_stateinfo
  • 6_pipes
• Lots more, take a look inside the files in parts/

Known issues

• sudo su: When sudoing to root (sudo su), we will get some problems using the prompt. Therefor, a plain prompt is set when using sudo. You can use an alias called 'ss' to sudo yourself to root without this problem. 'ss' will run 'sudo bash -l' which works as expected using the prompt.

Installation

If you want easy updates, and maybe want to contribute at some point. Use this method.

Using git

1. git clone git://github.com/xeor/ninjab.git ninjab: Clone the repository to wherever you want
2. cp ninjab/config ~/.ninjab.conf && nano ~/.ninjab.conf: Create your own local config file and edit it.
3. echo '. /home/username/ninjab/loader' >> ~/.profile: Make sure the loader is started with a new shell
4. Try to start a new shell

Using RPM

1. wget https://github.com/downloads/xeor/ninjab/ninjab-latest.noarch.rpm
2. rpm -ivh ninjab-latest.noarch.rpm
3. cp /usr/share/ninjab/config ~/.ninjab.conf && nano ~/.ninjab.conf: Create your own local config file and edit it.
4. echo '. /usr/share/ninjab/loader' >> ~/.profile: Make sure the loader is started with a new shell
5. Try to start a new shell

Configuration

ninjab looks for configuration in 4 different places, in this order.

• config in its own directory first. Don't edit this file, may be options added in future versions.
• /etc/ninjab.conf for global configuration.
• config.local in its own directory. If you want any local changes use this. It wont be touched by updates.
• ~/.ninjab.conf in your home directory.