.bashrc

function findString { grep --color=always -rn $1 -e "$2"; }
export -f findString

#file extractor
extract ()
{
   if [ -f $1 ] ; then
       case $1 in
           *.tar.bz2)   tar xvjf $1;;
	   *.tar.xz)    tar xvJf $1;;
	   *.xz)        unxz $1;;
           *.tar.gz)    tar xvzf $1;;
           *.bz2)       bunzip2 $1;;
           *.rar)       unrar x $1;;
           *.gz)        gunzip $1;;
           *.tar)       tar xvf $1;;
           *.tbz2)      tar xvjf $1;;
           *.tgz)       tar xvzf $1;;
           *.zip)       unzip $1;;
           *.Z)         uncompress $1;;
           *.7z)        7z x $1;;
           *)           echo "don't know how to extract '$1'..." ;;
       esac
   else
       echo "'$1' is not a valid file!"
   fi
}


PATH=$PATH:~/bin

# for setting history length see HISTSIZE and HISTFILESIZE in bash(1)
HISTSIZE=10000
HISTFILESIZE=20000

EDITOR=emacs