.bash_profile

export EDITIOR=vim
sets vim to be the default editor. it's probably not kosher to leave off the path, but it varies a lot between systems, so i just trust it's going to be available within $PATH

complete -W "$(echo `cat ~/.ssh/known_hosts | cut -f 1 -d ' ' | sed -e s/,.*//g | uniq | grep -v "\["`;)" ssh
I'll happily admit this is voodoo to me, I could probably dissect how it works but i dont really care. takes hosts found in ~/.ssh/known_hosts and autocompletes them like filenames


alias ls='ls -FG'
alias ll='ls -FGl'
alias la='ls -aFGl'
colourful ls' with symbols to denote executable files and directories


alias h='history'
alias hg='history|grep'
less keystrokes for history and search of history means I use it more often

alias cp='cp -v'
I like to know the progress of long copy operations

alias df='df -H'
alias du='du -H'
who cares about bytes when you're dealing with hundreds of gigabytes. human readable please!

alias rm='rm -i'
saves me from brainfarts. overridden by rm -f

alias curl-easy="curl -C - -O "
an alias to make curl work more like fetch or wget. resumes automatically, saves the downloaded data named the same as it is on the server