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Created November 10, 2015 14:59
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Bash eternal history and autocomplete
# Bash history settings
export HISTCONTROL=ignoredups:erasedups # no duplicate entries
export HISTSIZE=100000 # big big history
export HISTFILESIZE=100000 # big big history
shopt -s histappend # append to history, don't overwrite it
# Save and reload the history after each command finishes
export PROMPT_COMMAND="history -a; history -c; history -r; $PROMPT_COMMAND"
# ssh host autocomp
complete -W "$(echo `cat ~/.ssh/known_hosts | cut -f 1 -d ' ' | sed -e s/,.*//g | uniq | grep -v "\["`;)" ssh
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