various fixes and improvements

[distro-setup] / brc

diff --git a/brc b/brc
index 74cda5b1be142b813c25bae225d682bb271bcc99..b5d45969c67b9364d6dfc783d187be1873d27707 100644 (file)
--- a/brc
+++ b/brc
@@ -33,8 +33,6 @@ fi
 
 CDPATH=.
 
-set -o pipefail
-
 # remove all aliases. aliases provided by the system tend to get in the way,
 # for example, error happens if I try to define a function the same name as an alias
 unalias -a
@@ -161,28 +159,9 @@ if [[ $- == *i* ]]; then
 
 fi
 
-
-# history number. History expansion is good.
-PS4='$LINENO+ '
-# history file size limit, set to unlimited.
-# this needs to be different from the default because
-# default HISTFILESIZE is 500 and could clobber our history
-HISTFILESIZE=
-# max commands 1 session can append/read from history
-HISTSIZE=1000000
-# the time format display when doing the history command
-# also, setting this makes the history file record time
-# of each command as seconds from the epoch
-HISTTIMEFORMAT="%Y-%m-%d %I:%M %p "
-# consecutive duplicate lines dont go in history
-HISTCONTROL=ignoredups
-# works in addition to HISTCONTROL to do more flexible things
-# it could also do the same things as HISTCONTROL and thus replace it,
-# but meh. dunno why, but just " *" does glob expansion, so use [ ] to avoid it.
-HISTIGNORE='pass *:[ ]*:otp *:oathtool *'
-
 export BC_LINE_LENGTH=0
 
+# ansible option
 export PROFILE_TASKS_TASK_OUTPUT_LIMIT=100
 
 # note, if I use a machine I dont want files readable by all users, set
@@ -875,7 +854,7 @@ grep ps and output in a nice format"
   # final grep is because some commands tend to have a lot of trailing spaces
   y=$(echo "$x" | grep -iP "$@" | grep -o '.*[^ ]') ||:
   if [[ $y ]]; then
-    echo "$x" | head -n 1
+    echo "$x" | head -n 1 || [[ $? == 141 ]]
     echo "$y"
   fi
 }