Tornando o bash mais amigável

O recurso 'Tab completion' do bash é apenas um aperitivo do que ele é capaz, criando um arquivo ~/.inputrc no seu diretório pessoal as coisas melhoram ainda mais. Se o bash não estiver lendo a variável $INPUTRC coloque-a no seu ~/.bashrc para que ele leia o inputrc e copie o código abaixo para ele:

	# ------------------------------------------------------
	# FILE: ~/.inputrc
	# CREATED: Qui 13/Out/2011 hs 09:39
	# LAST CHANGE: Qui 13/Out/2011 hs 09:39
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	# DOWNLOAD: https://gist.github.com/1284081
	#
	# key bindings for bash
	#
	# ( O O )
	# --------------oOO--(_)--OOo---------------------------
	#-------------------------------------------------------
	# Use `bind -v` to see current settings
	#-------------------------------------------------------
	# definir no ~/ .bashrc o local do inputrc
	# INPUTRC=~/.inputrc
	# para baixar:
	# wget -c https://raw.github.com/gist/1284081 -O ~/.inputrc
	# alternative download
	# wget -c http://pastie.org/pastes/2689512/text -C ~/.inpurtc
	# Referências
	# https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/base-files/+bug/103986
	# http://superuser.com/questions/222390/making-bash-tab-completion-more-like-cmd-exe
	# pesquisar sobre as opções 'shopt' do bash
	# pesquisar as opções 'cmdhist' 'nocaseglob' 'nocasematch'
	# By default, C-x C-r is bound to re-read-init-file.
	# Adding this to your /etc/inputrc or ~/.inputrc will result in a character
	# # being appended to any file-names returned by completion, in much the same
	# # way as ls -F works.
	set visible-stats on
	set blink-matching-paren on
	set bell-style visible
	set convert-meta off
	set input-meta on
	set output-meta on
	$if Bash
	# Search history back and forward using page-up and page-down
	"\e[5~": history-search-backward
	"\e[6~": history-search-forward
	# Cycle through ambiguous completions instead of list (option bellow)
	"\C-i": menu-complete
	# Completion
	set match-hidden-files off
	set completion-query-items 350
	set completion-ignore-case on
	set show-all-if-ambiguous on
	set show-all-if-unmodified on
	# do history expansion when space entered
	Space: magic-space
	$endif
	$include /etc/inputrc
	# put in your ~/.bashrc
	# complete -d cd mkdir rmdir
	# exec bash (to reload bash)

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