the alias did not work until I sourced my .bashrc file after the changes, i.e. typed ". ~/.bashrc" and hit Enter. After that, the "c" cleared the screen. Before I sourced the .bashrc I was getting an error that c command was not found. Just sharing my experience, in case anyone else runs into the same issue.
I have seen some deveopers especially make configurations in "bash" file but didn't understand what they were doing until I watched this video. Thank you Linux TV
lots rave about zsh or fish - but interesting you use and teach bash. somehow i find that comforting. Maybe because there is enough to learn without worrying about missing out in another shell.
Great series Jay. I'm sure someone already pointed this out, but the alias created for 'clear' at the end of this video won't work until the shell is restarted, and re-reads the .bash.rc file. This might confuse folks. I'm sure there's a better way to restart bash, but I did it by closing my terminal window and opening another one. Speaking of which, perhaps you might consider mentioning how to open terminal in one of the earlier videos in the series.
Brilliant, went away after watching this excellent vlog and did a bit of work using a PS1 Generator and mucked around with it and I too have my own prompt.
For those on Manjaro and wondering why it isn't working after you start a new terminal. Manjaro uses zsh and not bash in the terminal. You need to edit the .zshrc file, also located in you home folder. After editing you use "source .zshrc" or close and open a new terminal. Took me a while before realizing my terminal uses zsh by default and not bash. I does say so at the top of the terminal (e.g. zsh ---- Konsole).
I nerded out when he said that. Lol. My machines are also named after things from FF. Shiva, Carbuncle, Tonberry, and Ragnarok are all names I've used, and I have other ones planned for future machines :-)
@@WhoaItsSam I'm not familiar with carbuncle or tonberry, but Shiva and Ragnarok are definitely not 'original' names that square enix came up with. ;) (coincidentally my server node is called Magrathea :) )
Doesn't seem to work in Linux Mint 2 just released even using the "sourced" command all I get is command not found and .~/.bashrc or bash: !/.bashrc: event not found.