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Making bash work correctly

The Non-Annoying Terminal Mini How-To & Fun with shopt

shopt -s checkwinsize

Makes bash check the window size after every command, so that it never wraps the command line in a completely messed up manner.

Makes you wonder why there isn’t a ‘just act sanely’ option somewhere, but I’m sure that this was originally a backwards compatibility thing.

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