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Execution sequence for interactive login shellexecute /etc/profile IF ~/.bash_profile exists THEN execute ~/.bash_profileELSE IF ~/.bash_login exist THEN execute ~/.bash_login ELSE IF ~/.profile exist THEN execute… Read More »Execution Sequence of .bash_* files

I you don’t want the shell to remember the commands you have typed, then disable history all together by setting the HISTSIZE to 0 as… Read More »Disable the usage of history using HISTSIZE

Use shopt -s cdspell to correct the typos in the cd command automatically asshown below. $ cd /var/vmall-bash: cd: /var/vmall: No such file or directory$… Read More »“shopt -s cdspell” : Automatically correct mistyped directory names on cd

You can toggle between the last two current directories using cd – as shownbelow. [dipin@linuxgeek ~]$ cd /etc/[dipin@linuxgeek etc]$ pwd/etc[dipin@linuxgeek etc]$ cd /var/[dipin@linuxgeek var]$ pwd/var[dipin@linuxgeek… Read More »Use “cd -” to toggle between the last two directories

In the below example i have show how to navigate up to level 5 using cd……(cd followed by 6 dots).Here a single dot represents the… Read More »Try to navigate up the directory using cd followed by consecutive dots

When you’ve logged on to the remotehost using ssh from the localhost, you may want to come back to the localhost to perform some activity… Read More »Toggle SSH Session using SSH Escape Character