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Configure Bash

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In this chapter, we’ll look at various configurations that can be made to Bash. Often this is done by using configuration scripts that run when Bash starts as well as other configuration files that control installed utilities or lower-level libraries like .inputrc.

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Kirkbride, P. (2020). Configure Bash. In: Basic Linux Terminal Tips and Tricks. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6035-7_14

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