Using bash aliases in Linux can save time and having to remember complex commands - and it can be fun, too. Want to get work done a little faster, spend less time remembering commands and maybe even ...

The .history file in Linux – whether ~/.bash_history, ~/.zsh_history or ~/.history – provides ways to track and reuse commands that you have recently run. This post suggests how you might make good ...

If you'd like to add a bit more personalization to your Linux command line efforts, there's a simple way to do so. You may or may not need all of that information. For instance, when you include the ...

We're going all the way back ...

For all other shells, it reads ~/.bashrc. OS X may have patched their bash to read /etc/bashrc by default as well, but not everyone does this. I would presume when ~/.xinitrc gets run, it's not a ...