Bash "should-be" standards
Whenever I see a pristine Debian or Ubuntu system, I wonder why elementary functions of the bash are not activated.
You can either edit /etc/bashrc and /etc/inputrc or do the following per user:
echo "export HISTSIZE=1000" >> ~/.bashrc echo "export HISTFILESIZE=1000" >> ~/.bashrc echo "export GREP_OPTIONS='--color=auto'" >> ~/.bashrc echo "shopt -s histappend" >> ~/.bashrc echo "PROMPT_COMMAND=\"history -a; \$PROMPT_COMMAND\"" >> ~/.bashrc echo "\"\e[5~\": history-search-backward" >> ~/.inputrc echo "\"\e[6~\": history-search-forward" >> ~/.inputrc echo "set match-hidden-files off" >> ~/.inputrc echo "set page-completions off" >> ~/.inputrc echo "set completion-query-items 350" >> ~/.inputrc echo "set show-all-if-ambiguous on" >> ~/.inputrc