How to configure the Bash shell

Add this to /etc/bashrc or ~/.bashrc,

LANG=en_US; export LANG

CVS_RSH=ssh; export CVS_RSH

[[ "$USER" = "root" ]] && PS1="\h# " || PS1="\h> "

  #http_proxy=proxy.example.com:8080; export http_proxy

Note. As for AIX, use this LANG instead,

LANG=C; export LANG

Note. as for Solaris, use this one,

LANG=en_US.ISO8859-1; export LANG

and make sure /usr/sfw/bin is also in the PATH

Note. When you're done configuring the system, you may want to cleanup the history,

history -c

When you got a freaked up shell,

reset

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