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 # Changing over to ZSH for now, bashrc is kept here as emergency shell/posterity
 # to change default shell, use chsh -s $(which bash)
 # ~/.bashrc
-# testing
 history -c && history -w && hash -r
 # create custom env variables:
 export cproj="/home/brian/Documents/Code/source_code_to_study/sandbox/msh"
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