turn on a few useful bash features

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/.bashrc b/.bashrc
index 119e071..ff11c5b 100644
--- a/.bashrc
+++ b/.bashrc
@@ -23,6 +23,13 @@ shopt -s histappend
 # update the values of LINES and COLUMNS.
 shopt -s checkwinsize
 
+# Let ** recursively scan directories
+shopt -s globstar
+
+# Why is this not on by default?
+# "We have a cached value, but it isn't valid anymore. Should we trash it?"
+shopt -s checkhash
+
 # make less more friendly for non-text input files, see lesspipe(1)
 [ -x /usr/bin/lesspipe ] && eval "$(SHELL=/bin/sh lesspipe)"