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Most modern distributions will come with BASH (Bourne Again SHell) pre-installed and configured as a default shell. The command (actually an executable binary, an ELF) that is responsible for changing shells in Linux is chsh (change shell). We can first check which shells are already installed and...

Customizing the Shell prompt Default command prompt can be changed to look different and short. In case the current directory is long default command prompt becomes too large. Using PS1 becomes useful in these cases. A short and customized command pretty and elegant. In the table below PS1 has be...

If you are tired of using long commands in bash you can create your own command alias. The best way to do this is to modify (or create if it does not exist) a file called .bash_aliases in your home folder. The general syntax is: alias command_alias='actual_command' where actual_command is the c...

Using bash you can easily locate a file with the locate command. For example say you are looking for the file mykey.pem: locate mykey.pem Sometimes files have strange names for example you might have a file like random7897_mykey_0fidw.pem. Let's say you're looking for this file but you only reme...