mrzool/bash-sensible

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2123 stars · 93 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A single sourced shell file providing saner default settings for Bash, inspired by sensible.vim. It improves tab completion, command history handling, and filesystem navigation out of the box.

Use cases

• set up a better bashrc starting point
• make bash tab completion case insensitive
• stop bash history from overwriting itself
• speed up cd navigation in the terminal
• avoid duplicate entries in bash history
• source sane bash defaults in my dotfiles

When to choose

• you use Bash 4.x on Linux or macOS and want better defaults without a full framework
• you want a small, readable config to cherry-pick options from
• you're building dotfiles and want a solid baseline

When to avoid

• you use zsh or fish instead of Bash
• you're stuck with Bash 3.x (e.g., default macOS bash)
• you want a full shell framework like oh-my-bash with plugins and themes

Facets

library · maturity stable

developer-tools configuration-management cli developer-tools operating-systems cli cross-platform bashrc shell-config dotfiles bash sensible-defaults command-line linux macos

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