Turbocharge Your Terminal

If you are a Linux user, and according to our stats, there is a 10.35% chance that you are, then you will want to check out a new article at Lifehacker. It’s all about tweaking the heck out of your terminal, focusing on the .bashrc file in your home directory. The article is especially helpful if you want to create shortcuts for long commands you run all the time, such as yum.

t’s easy to customize the command line to your particular needs. Today I’ve got a few tweaks that will ramp up your command line productivity so you can spend less time frackin’ around in the terminal and more time getting things done. The holy grail of the terminal lies in a configuration file located in home/username/.bashrc. Let’s transform .bashrc from a couch potato into a productivity monster.

Source: Lifehacker