If you’ve read my Getting the most out of bash article at IBM developerWorks then you be interested in some further bash goodness and improvements. Juliet Kemp covers some additional tricks on Improving bash to make working with bash easier. Some of the stuff there I have already covered, but the completion extensions might be useful if you like to optimize your typing. Even better, one of the comments provides the hooks to change your prompt to include your current CVS branch, another to include your current platform, and a really cool way of simplifying your history searching.