.profile: copy some code and comments from Debian /etc/skel

[dotfiles.git] / .profile

diff --git a/.profile b/.profile
index 0e3ffdd34fb2e413fa64487bb00306e04914b6b7..1f6b720860d1330c82bcbfd213f7d5204bcaa2a1 100644 (file)
--- a/.profile
+++ b/.profile
@@ -2,6 +2,12 @@
 # $HOME/.profile (works with sh, ksh and bash)
 #
 
+# ~/.profile: executed by the command interpreter for login shells.
+# This file is not read by bash(1), if ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bash_login
+# exists.
+# see /usr/share/doc/bash/examples/startup-files for examples.
+# the files are located in the bash-doc package.
+
 case "$SHELL" in
    */*csh) SHELL=/bin/bash
    ;;
@@ -15,6 +21,10 @@ if [ -z "$USER" ]; then
    USER="$LOGNAME"; export USER
 fi
 
+# the default umask is set in /etc/profile; for setting the umask
+# for ssh logins, install and configure the libpam-umask package.
+#umask 022
+
 ### umask sets a mask for the default file permissions,
 ### umask 022 is less restrictive, 077 more paranoid
 umask 077
@@ -97,6 +107,9 @@ if [ -t 0 ] ; then
       LESSEDIT='vim ?lt+%lt. -- %f'
       export LESS LESSCHARSET LESSEDIT # LESSCHARDEF
 
+      # make less more friendly for non-text input files, see lesspipe(1)
+      #[ -x /usr/bin/lesspipe ] && eval "$(SHELL=/bin/sh lesspipe)"
+
    else
       PAGER=more
    fi
@@ -110,7 +123,7 @@ if [ -t 0 ] ; then
    HISTCONTROL=ignoreboth
    HISTIGNORE='&: *:x:X:[bf]g'
    HISTFILE="$HOME/.sh_history"
-   HISTFILESIZE=1000
+   HISTFILESIZE=2000
    HISTSIZE=1000
    export HISTCONTROL HISTIGNORE HISTFILE HISTFILESIZE HISTSIZE
 
@@ -146,17 +159,21 @@ if [ -t 0 ] ; then
    ENV="$HOME/.shellrc"
    export ENV
 
+   # set variable identifying the chroot you work in (used in the prompt below)
+   if [ -z "${debian_chroot:-}" ] && [ -r /etc/debian_chroot ]; then
+       debian_chroot="`cat /etc/debian_chroot`"
+   fi
+
    case "$SHELL" in
       */bash)
-         shopt -s checkwinsize
          # display the user, host and current working directory
          # in the terminal title
          case "$TERM" in
             *rxvt*|screen*|*term*|vt100)
-               OPS1="\[\033]0;\u@\h:\w\007\]"
+               OPS1="\[\033]0;${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u@\h:\w\007\]"
                case "$TERM" in
                   screen*)
-                     OPS1=${OPS1}"\[\033k\u@\h:\w\033\\\\\]" # Set screen/tmux caption
+                     OPS1=${OPS1}"\[\033k${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u@\h:\w\033\\\\\]" # Set screen/tmux caption
                   ;;
                esac
             ;;
@@ -166,11 +183,11 @@ if [ -t 0 ] ; then
             ;;
          esac
 
-         OPS1=${OPS1}"\u@\h \W "
+         OPS1=${OPS1}"${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u@\h \W "
          . "$ENV"
          ;;
       *)
-         OPS1="`/usr/bin/whoami`@`/bin/hostname -s` "
+         OPS1="${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}`/usr/bin/whoami`@`/bin/hostname -s` "
          ;;
    esac