Hi! This is a repository where some useful configuration files are stored.

Please feel free to submit pull requests here as you think is necessary.

You can copy/merge these files to the same relative location in your home directory.

.bashrc - Configuration file for bash (the bourne again shell)
.nanorc - Configuration file for nano (Nano's ANOther editor, an enhanced free Pico clone)
.procmailrc - Configuration file for procmail (autonomous mail processor)
.ssh/config - Configuration file for ssh (secure shell)
.profile - Configuration file for compatible shells' (sh, ash, ksh, bash) login
.inputrc - Initialization file for readline (a library that allow users to edit command lines as they are typed in)
.vimrc - Initialization file for vim (Vi IMproved, a programmers text editor)
.wgetrc - User startup file for Wget (The non-interactive network downloader)

.bashrc - Configuration file for bash (the bourne again shell)

gives a colored prompt
- includes the non-zero exit status of the last command
colorizes the output of grep and ls
gives you the shortcut wcc for compiling with -Wall -Werror
gives you the shortcut mcc for compiling with mudflap and -Wall -Werror
allows you to do a forward history search with Ctrl-f (you know how Ctrl-r does a backward history search, right?)
stores a large history (without consecutive duplicates)
stores history with date and time stamps
make less more friendly for non-text input files
warns you when losing data with cp, mv, or rm
requires two ctrl-d's to exit a shell, in case you press it accidentally

.nanorc - Configuration file for nano (Nano's ANOther editor, an enhanced free Pico clone)

autoindentation (it's stupid, though)
automatic backups
mouse support
tab inserts spaces
color syntax highlighting

.procmailrc - Configuration file for procmail (autonomous mail processor)

logs what it filters
prevents most duplicates

.ssh/config - Configuration file for ssh (secure shell)

Automatic control connections (If you already have a connection open, reuses the same connection to spawn a new shell. This is faster, and doesn't require re-authentication.)
Readable known hosts (If your client machine is compromised, people can find out where you connect to, but now so can you, and your tab-completing shell!)
Always forwards X1. (Never type -X or -Y again!)
Disables strict host key checking (Tells you about new keys and possible man-in-the-middle attacks, but isn't as annoying to confirm.)
Doesn't check for DNS spoofing (Faster to connect)
Doesn't store keys for localhost (Less annoying if your home directory is shared on multiple machines and you do ssh localhost.)
Keeps connections alive (Doesn't disconnect you if you step away for an hour or so.)
Alias for cse (Just type "ssh cse" instead of the entire hostname.)

.profile - Configuration file for compatible shells' (sh, ash, ksh, bash) login

loads your .bashrc, if you are running bash and you have a .bashrc
prepends ~/.local/bin to your path, if you have ~/.local/bin
prepends ~/bin to your path, if you have ~/bin
disables beeps if you are logging into a graphical display
sets less (a file viewer) to allow colors, default to search case-insensitively, and display utf-8 characters
sets up ssh agent, for ssh forwarding (You will also want .bash_logout to kill the agent when you logout)

Special Installation Instructions

For most people, you can just save the file to .profile in your home directory.

If you have a ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bash_login file, then ~/.profile is not read.

To quote from the bash (1) man page:

When bash is invoked as an interactive login shell, or as a  non-inter-
active  shell with the --login option, it first reads and executes com-
mands from the file /etc/profile, if that file exists.   After  reading
that file, **it looks for ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login, and ~/.profile,
in that order, and reads and executes commands from the first one  that
exists**  and  is  readable.

It is recommended that you merge the three into ~/.profile and place the bash-specific items in a block like:

# if running bash
if [ -n "$BASH_VERSION" ]; then
# perform bash-specific code
fi

.inputrc - Initialization file for readline (a library that allow users to edit command lines as they are typed in)

gives case-insensitive tab completion
disables beeps
page up and page down to search history

.vimrc - Initialization file for vim (Vi IMproved, a programmers text editor)

tab inserts spaces
color syntax highlighting

.wgetrc - User startup file for Wget (The non-interactive network downloader)

Turn off verbose without being completely quiet (use -q for that), which means that error messages and basic information still get printed.
no retries
Continue getting a partially-downloaded file.
Turn on time-stamping.
experimental (not fully-functional) support for "Content-Disposition" headers is enabled. some file-downloading CGI programs use "Content-Disposition" headers to describe what the name of a downloaded file should be.

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