Personalized Bash Shell, VIM, and other settings...

I want to capture my very simple, yet I think clean, settings I like to use.

Here is my .bashrc

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# .bashrc

# Source global definitions
if [ -f /etc/bashrc ]; then
        . /etc/bashrc
fi

# User specific aliases and functions
LS_COLORS='di=1;33' ; export LS_COLORS

PROMPT_DIRTRIM=3
export PROMPT_DIRTRIM

PS1="[\u \w]\$"
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This sets some colors and makes the prompt show the directories in a way that I find useful because I am always deep into the directory structure.

[user1 ~/.../opt/solr-5.4.1/example]$

Here is my .vimrc

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colorscheme desert
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BASH Script to remove trailing back slash

I was working with a script that was called in an RPM build (in the SPEC file). I passed a directory as a the first variable to the script. The directory ended with a back slash. I needed to remove that backslash since all of my variables started with a backslash.

RPM_BUILD_DIR=""
if [ -n "$1" ]
then
   RPM_BUILD_DIR=${1%/} #REMOVE TRAILING /
fi

So, the bash script checks to see if we have a parameter in the first position and if so remove the trailing backslash.

If the directory string was "/usr/local/bin/" the results are:
"/usr/local/bin"

I searched for examples to do this and they all seemed overly complex. Maybe this one is too simple for some situations, but it works for my needs.