bash

Bash shell configuration.

Prerequisites

Tool	Purpose	Install
bash 4+	Shell	ships with Linux; brew install bash on macOS
fzf	Required by fzf_functions.sh	system package manager

Files

File	Installed as	Notes
bashrc	~/.bashrc	Main interactive shell config
profile	~/.profile	Login shell — sets PATH and exports
inputrc	~/.inputrc	GNU Readline config (applies to bash, psql, python REPL, etc.)
bash_aliases	~/.bash_aliases	Sourced from bashrc
bash_profile	~/.bash_profile	Login shell; sources ~/.profile and ~/.bashrc
sensible.bash	sourced by bashrc	Sane defaults (from mrzool/bash-sensible)
fzf_functions.sh	~/.fzf_functions.sh	Git+fzf helper functions — source from ~/.bashrc

Key settings

inputrc

• Vi edit mode for all readline-enabled programs
• Case-insensitive tab completion
• Single Tab shows all matches (no double-tap needed)

sensible.bash

• HISTCONTROL=ignoreboth — no duplicate or space-prefixed entries in history
• HISTSIZE=500000, HISTFILESIZE=100000
• shopt -s histappend checkwinsize globstar
• PROMPT_COMMAND appends history after every command

fzf_functions.sh — git+fzf helpers (source from ~/.bashrc):

Function	Description
fco	Fuzzy checkout a branch or tag
fco_preview	Fuzzy checkout with commit log preview
fcoc_preview	Fuzzy checkout a specific commit with diff preview

Requires fzf and diff-so-fancy (npm install -g diff-so-fancy) for commit previews.

Install

./setup.sh -m bash   # Linux / WSL only

Not applicable on Windows — use the powershell module instead.

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Source: bash/README.md in the dotfiles repo.