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I need an idiot-proof shell

After decades of never losing any significant data, last night I deleted my Video dir for the second time in six months, along with my Music this time. Fortunately I had learned my lesson and had a complete backup this time. The first time I lost a large amount of non-critical videos I [...]

Screen hardstatus

GingerDog saw my screen and was curious about the status line I have. The entire screenrc I use.

(the thingy at the bottom of the image) It’s achieved using the following magic incantation in my
.screenrc

hardstatus on hardstatus lastline "%c:%s – %-Lw%{=BW}%50>%n%f*t%{-}%+Lw%<"
 

Oh, and each window gets
automatically named after the program running in it using the
following.

shelltitle "$ |bash"
 

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