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As for someone who spends a lot of time on terminal I wanted to make my mac terminal as close to Ubuntus default terminal.

I like to keep things easy and simple There are two routes you can go from here: Use Zsh(with oh-my-zsh) and various other packages This is what you will find is the most common way to go about powering up your terminal.

I realized I didnt need zsh superpowers and it was slowing the terminal down Upgrade and customize your BASH This option suited my need so lets go with this one.

Heres a list of things I need in my terminal: It needs to be fast (no compromises here) Appropriate colors for files and folders etc Command completion (Because I am dumb) Some nice message like: we-are-ready-to-take-down-the-internet-just-press-y So lets get started Install Brew Brew is the package manager for mac, you are gonna use it a lot in the future.

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Just paste the command below in your terminal and we are good to go: usrbinruby -e (curl -fsSL ) Install Bash Now mac comes with a default bash which is really old(3) so we are gonna install a new one.

As you may notice its a little faster than zsh but thats also because its bare bone.Now lets prettify it.

Colors and git support Create a file in your home directory touch.bashprofile Now to add colors into this file.

Tip: You can change a lot of things from terminal preferences in Mac like colors, transparency, background etc.

Command completion Now lets get to the part that really boosts your productivity.

Auto command completion is probably the best thing that happened since some invented peanut butter.

So lets get to it.

NVMDIRnvm.sh source NVMDIRbashcompletion This loads nvm bash completion for npm source This works but it slows down your terminal considerably.

Check this issue.

Now until they fix we can lazy load the node using the below script.

Source Defer initialization of nvm until nvm, node or a node-dependent command is run.

Ensure this block is only run once if.bashrc gets sourced multiple times by checking whether initnvm is a function.

HOME.nvmnvm.sh (type -t initnvm) function; then export NVMDIRHOME.nvm -s NVMDIRbashcompletion.

NVMDIRbashcompletion declare -a nodecommands(nvm node npm yarn gulp grunt webpack) function initnvm() for i in nodecommands; do unalias i; done.

NVMDIRnvm.sh unset nodecommands unset -f initnvm for i in nodecommands; do alias iinitnvm i; done fi Note: Choose only one from the above.

This ensures that nvm only runs when we need it and not at the start of terminal.

Its got colors and command completion and some more things that I dont know of.

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