A few more tricks to make your bash environment better. As always, add them to your ~/.profile or ~/.bash_profile to enable. Disable the pagination of long lists when ambiguously tab completing. bind ‘set page-completions off’ Increase max returned items before being prompted. (ie, “Display all 380 possibilities? (y or n”). You can set the number [...]

If you’re a Mac user who utilizes Terminal.app with any regularity you have probably run into some Linux servers where the Mac Delete key behaves as forward delete instead of backspace (Ubuntu, Debian, and a few other distributions have this issue). This is a really obnoxious problem, but fortunately there is an easy global fix. [...]