You may want to add some useful alias to your .bashrc, you can take them from:
https://gist.github.com/awesomebytes/c5885775ac9b7429cfcf7cb99b14f3cf
https://gist.github.com/awesomebytes/d15a69052a91868d2c47819c773d3591
You'll get pretty colors and stuff.