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Standard place for user defined bash_completion.d scripts?
For non-XDG environments and bash-completion <= 2.8
Here is how a local user can have a working ~/.bash_completion.d/ directory.
edit file: nano ~/.bash_completion, add the following:
for bcfile ...
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Straight forward way to run ssh-agent and ssh-add on login via SSH?
You can try adding this:
eval $(ssh-agent -s)
ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa
This way the ssh-agent does not start a new shell, it just launches itself in the background and spits out the shell commands to ...
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Login without running bash_profile or bashrc
You need to a) start bash without source'ing either ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_profile and b) since such a shell wouldn't be a full login shell / have no tty attached, force ssh to attach a tty:
ssh -t ...
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bashrc not loaded in /bin/bash shell
the ~/.bashrc file is loaded for interactive non-login shells, that's why running /bin/bash from ssh works as you expect.
For login shells (amongst others) ~/.bash_profile is read. Typically your ~/....
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How to use a custom .bashrc file on SSH login
I think sshrc is what you're looking for:
https://github.com/Russell91/sshrc
sshrc works just like ssh, but it also sources ~/.sshrc after logging in remotely.
$ echo "echo welcome" > ~/.sshrc
$...
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Where does the bash PATH on CentOS 7 get /usr/local/bin from?
Other people have asked the same thing on the CentOS bug tracker. The earliest post I found was this one.
/usr/local/bin is hardcoded in /bin/bash.
https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=10200
https://...
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Standard place for user defined bash_completion.d scripts?
The FAQ has been updated. There is now a standard place for local completions.
Q. Where should I install my own local completions?
A. Put them in the completions subdir of $...
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How do I restore the default bashrc?
Move the damaged file out of the way, then reinstall the package that provides the damaged file.
mv /etc/bashrc /etc/bashrc.damaged
yum reinstall $(rpm -qf /etc/bashrc)
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How to protect from dangerous bash commands?
First off, never use root to execute day-to-day commands.
That's the best way to actually expose yourself to disasters.
With that in mind, if you use sudo, you can actually limit commands AND the ...
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How do I restore the default bashrc?
Did you overwrite the .bashrc in your user directory? Or the systemwide .bashrc stored in /etc/skel/? You can always copy the default.bashrcfrom/etc/skel/` like this:
cp /etc/skel/.bashrc ~/.bashrc
...
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Where does the bash PATH on CentOS 7 get /usr/local/bin from?
In the bash source "config-top.h" has this:
/* The default value of the PATH variable. */
#ifndef DEFAULT_PATH_VALUE
#define DEFAULT_PATH_VALUE \
"/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/...
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Can't use functions exported from .bashrc in a bash script
Check http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.html#Bash-Startup-Files
Invoked non-interactively
When Bash is started non-interactively, to run a shell script, for example, it looks for ...
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Best Practice to obscure path to keypair in bash_profile?
Hiding your key in an unusual place is not making it any safer. If you undertake basic good practice for key management there's really no need to do anything extra.
Your private key needs to be kept ...
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6
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Login without running bash_profile or bashrc
None of the above answers can bypass the login shell of ssh. You can pass a full command line, and so it runs the remote shell to process the command and set the working environment for the command. ...
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Standard place for user defined bash_completion.d scripts?
At least bash-completion 2.8 and later enable option to place local Bash completions in directory
${BASH_COMPLETION_USER_DIR:-${XDG_DATA_HOME:-$HOME/.local/share}/bash-completion}/completions
The ...
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Straight forward way to run ssh-agent and ssh-add on login via SSH?
One alternative is to use Funtoo's Keychain. Then you can stick this one-liner in your bash shell:
eval $(keychain --eval id_rsa)
That does the same thing (launches ssh agent, etc.), while also not ...
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Where does the bash PATH on CentOS 7 get /usr/local/bin from?
It definitely looks hard coded into /bin/bash
strings /bin/bash | grep "\/usr\/local\/bin"
/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin
which seems to be the default PATH.
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~/.bashrc is NOT sourced on ssh 'command'
From the INVOCATION chapter of man bash:
When an interactive shell that is not a login shell is started, bash reads and executes commands from /etc/bash.bashrc and ~/.bashrc, if these files exist. ...
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Straight forward way to run ssh-agent and ssh-add on login via SSH?
Another alternative is to add this to your .bashrc. This has the same advantage as Erik's answer (ensuring a single instance) but doesn't require an additional package.
# SSH Agent should be running, ...
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'source .bash_profile' fails but 'source path/to/.bash_profile' works
You are using bash in POSIX mode.
From man bash under source filename [arguments]
If filename does not contain a slash, file names in PATH are used to find the directory containing filename... ...
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Where does the bash PATH on CentOS 7 get /usr/local/bin from?
In addition to previous answers; If you are reaching you VM by ssh this could has sense.
In /etc/ssh/sshd_config:
# This sshd was compiled with PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin
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Aliasing Server Name in SSH Command
This should work:
create a file $HOME/.ssh/config (or in /etc/ssh/ssh_config, if you want to install that alias system-wide), and put the following config inside:
Host myalias
Hostname very-long-...
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Standard place for user defined bash_completion.d scripts?
A simpler solution is to use the nullglob option. While this isn't portable, neither are bash completions. So portability doesn't matter.
Also, you'll want to use quotes around the variable when ...
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Bashrc function called ssh doesn't work
SSH Bash Function
Making an ssh function to run something on login like you did, you can do the following:
function ssht () {
\ssh $@ -t 'tmux a || tmux || /bin/bash'
}
alias ssh=ssht
...
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Convenient date/time stamping console interaction e.g. using shell aliases?
You can simply modify your shell prompt PS1 variable to show current timestamp. One of the following can be used:
\t the current time in 24-hour HH:MM:SS format
\T the current time in 12-hour ...
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~/.bashrc is NOT sourced on ssh 'command'
Adding my bit to the old thread for information because the accepted answer is not the real reason for .bashrc not being read for an ssh command. I got the hint after reading this answer.
The second ...
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Login without running bash_profile or bashrc
ssh -t user@host "bash --norc --noprofile -c '/bin/rm .bashrc'"
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Where is this bash shell alias being configured?
If all your users have .bashrc with a reference to execute /etc/bashrc, then adding a line at the bottom of that file would be a good place to make this modification overwriting the previous alias.
...
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Best Practice to obscure path to keypair in bash_profile?
If someone has enough access to your box to harvest your keys, it's game over anyway. Don't worry about it.
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How to define envrionment variables accesisble by crontab's run and bash shell
I don't think you can do this in the crontab directly. The crontab file isn't a shell script so trying to source a script containing envvars into it doesn't work
. /path/to/envvars
crontab won't ...
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