bgrc

Improvements or suggestions to your shell experience with extensions useful for sysadmins.

bgrc is a set of improvements and suggestions from the simple defaults in your shell experience; and extensions useful for sysadmins. Improvements are currently available for bash, vim and screen. Investigate and cherry-pick or trying using deploy_bgrc to deploy the whole environment.

Quickstart

To deploy the whole environment:

git clone --recursive https://github.com/benvaljean/bgrc.git
cd bgrc
bin/deploy_bgrc -l

.screenrc and .vimrc deploy is skipped if your own version is already present

Sysadmin extensions

• bglvm Show PV, VG and LV information
• bginfo Show basic system information - system model and serial, cpu cores and RAM
• Post-login icons Show a character before the prompt upon login based on criteria eg. you have screens running

bgbashrc

.bgrc Improvements to bash and some commonly used programmes

Features include

• ssh auto-complete based on ssh known hosts and client config
• Improvements to bash history - longer history, common and dupes ignored and timestamp added
• Default git pager set to vim with ANSI colours interpreted
• Colours used in grep/ls when supported
• Prompt with colours for easier reading and full path
• Page commands on long-output with page command
• grep through history with hg pattern
• View only column x when you pipe to prow x
• Basic git auto-complete
• vim as default git pager with ansi escape sequences interpreted to highlight diffs
• Command shortcuts
• hds A screenful of head

bgvimrc

.vimrc Improvements to vimrc

Features include

• Use ; instead of : for commands - no need to press shift
• Use qq instead of q! to exit without saving - now exit a file without saving by typing ;qq instead of :q! by default.
• Syntax highlighting with solarized colours
• NERDTree plugin allow you to browse and view files in a tree view
• Show trailing spaces as ~ and tabs as >--; to enable :set list

bgscreenrc

.screenrc Improvements to screenrc

• Use Ctrl-L instead of Ctrl-D as the command character to free up Ctrl-D for bash.
• Longer screen scrollback

deploy_bgrc

deploy_bgrc Deploy all the above to a remote server or locally from a cloned repo.