Bash

I’ve run into a very strange problem. Every time I run setup.exe and try to upgrade bash package setup.exe crashes with the familiar “setup.exe has generated errors and will be close by windows. you will need to restart the program. An error log is being created”. The solution I found is for bash package but I guess it also work for other packages as well After googling a bit I found the this mail thread . But there was no solution posted into the thread so I tried to contact the Mario Frasca (one of the participants in the mail thread) to see if he found any solution to the problem. Well, he did. He sent me a mail telling me that William Crosmun resolved his problem. ...

If your are getting “bash: clear: command not found” on you first install of cygwin you have to make sure that you include ncurses packages in your cygwin installation. clear.exe doesn’t come in the standard installation. You must include ncurses to get clear.exe in your system. If you are using bash you can use Ctrl-L and get the same result though. UPDATE: ncurses is a cygwin package in libs category in Utils category. You can install it using the the Cygwin Setup utility (just run setup.exe again). See screenshot below ...

Today I finally decide to make a script to keep my bash_history synchronized among all the machines I use. It’s a simple script that retrieves all the .bash_history files from all my machines, merges all the files into one, sort it, removes the duplicated lines and write it back to all the machines. The only drawback is that the original ordering of the history files is lost due to the alphabetical sorting step (needed to remove the duplicated lines). ...

After reading the tip I mentioned in my previous post I made some changes to my `~/.bashrc` to enable bash history alias e32="$HOME/eclipse/eclipse321/eclipse" alias e33="$HOME/eclipse/eclipse33M4/eclipse" alias nb="$HOME/netbeans-5.5/bin/netbeans" JAVA_HOME=$HOME/jdk1.6.0 PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH:$HOME/bin: export PATH HISTFILESIZE=1000000000 HISTSIZE=1000000 HISTCONTROL=ignoredups shopt -s histappend INPUTRC=~/.inputrc and to my `~/.inputrc` "\e[A": history-search-backward "\e[B": history-search-forward “\e[A”and"\e[B"` being whatever your terminal uses for up & down. And with the following simple command I can see the commands I use most: ...

Very useful tip to analyze you bash history.