- added useful shell features

- cosmetics: whitespace

home_external/.bashrc

@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
 # see /usr/share/doc/bash/examples/startup-files (in the package bash-doc)
 # for examples
 
+set -o pipefail
+# set -u
+
 # If not running interactively, don't do anything
 if [[ $- != *i* ]]; then
    return
@@ -188,7 +191,7 @@ ex ()
       *.tar.bz2)   tar xjf $1   ;;
       *.tar.gz)    tar xzf $1   ;;
       *.bz2)       bunzip2 $1   ;;
-      *.rar)       unrar x $1     ;;
+      *.rar)       unrar x $1   ;;
       *.gz)        gunzip $1    ;;
       *.tar)       tar xf $1    ;;
       *.tbz2)      tar xjf $1   ;;