Chapter 5: Extras





Display number of files:

 When using the Separator Style, display the amount of files in the current directory

Display uptime:

 When using the Separator Style, display the System's uptime

Display size of files:

 When using the Separator Style, display the size of the files in the current directory

Display number of the TTY:

 When using the Separator Style, display the current TTY's number

Display number of running hobs:

 When using the Separator Style, display the number of running jobs [processes]

Display system load:

 When using the Separator Style, display the System Load [1 min]

Display battery load:

 When using the Separator Style, display the Battery Load [using apm]

Display Memory:

 Display the free or used RAM (or both) in MB

Directory Indicator:

 When using truncpwd for displaying the workdir this char is used as directory indicator
 eg. if set to > it will look like: >home>chris>Desktop instead of /home/chris/Desktop

Enable Tab-Rotation

 Enable this to use TAB to rotate between possible completions

Enable histappend:

 Append new content of the History to it, instead of overwriting
 [if HISTCONTROL is not erasedups]

Enable cd-spell:

 Workaround misstyped paths
 eg: cd /usr/sarhe will still cd into /usr/share
 as long as the first and the last letter are correct
 and no other directories are possibilities, too

Enable cdable vars:

 If the pathname doesn't exist, treat it as a variable
 cd HOME would when be the same than cd $HOME

Enable checkhash:

 Check if hash is up-to-date, else perform a normal path search

Enable cmdhist:

 Save Multi-line commands in a single history-line

Enable force fignore:

 Hide results masked by fignore, even if there's no other result

Enable histreedit:

 Allow reediting of wrong history substitutions

Enable no empty cmd comp.:

 Don't list all possible commands then pressing tab on an empty command line

Enable autocd:

 When typing in a command that is not an executable, but the name of
 a directory, then cd into that directory rather than saying no command

Enable dirspell:

 Similar to cd-spell, but for directories only and only while completing file-names

Enable globstar:

 Globstar is a new wildcard: ** -> it matches everything in any subdirectory

Enable checkjobs:

 When you're exiting the bash but there are still running jobs in the background
 print a warning rather than logging out and killing those processes