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In my BSD VMs (I am using an OpenBSD one at the moment), there are certain display settings that I like to change to emulate the default "terminal" settings on Linux. (I quote "terminal" here because we're not really messing with termcaps or anything hardcore.)
Why doesn't Ctrl-L clear the screen?
I install Bash to do this :-) The default shells for *BSD are often ksh or csh and it seems that Ctrl-L is not set-up to clear the screen on these shells. There is probably a better way to do this but I like Bash anyway, even if it is bloated.
Why doesn't .bashrc get read?
Put your commands/setup code in .bash_profile - or include .bashrc from .bash_profile
Fix your default pager
The default pager on *BSD is often set to more. You want to make it less.
$ export PAGER=less
This will make it so when you look at a man page and you scroll to the bottom of the page using G it doesn't quit back to the shell, it stays in the man page! This annoyed me so much!
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