# mrzool/bash-sensible

An attempt at saner Bash defaults

Repository: https://github.com/mrzool/bash-sensible
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/bash-sensible
Homepage: https://github.com/mrzool/bash-sensible/blob/master/sensible.bash
Language: Shell
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: bash, config, config-bashrc
Last push: 2024-10-17T19:31:36+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3919, "days_push": 685, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2123, forks 93 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:16.662856+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: library
- maturity: stable
- function: developer-tools, configuration-management, cli
- domain: developer-tools, operating-systems
- platform: cli, cross-platform
- tags: bashrc, shell-config, dotfiles, bash, sensible-defaults, command-line, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- mrzool/bash-sensible (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:16.662856+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:52:50.970743+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/mrzool/bash-sensible (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:16.662856+00:00, sha 24d8ba9c746b)
  - homepage: https://github.com/mrzool/bash-sensible/blob/master/sensible.bash (fetched 2026-08-29T10:32:45.477497+00:00, sha b0b11238af46)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.