Dotfiles

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Dotfiles.md

LinuxDotfiles - DotFiles For Linux/Unix Accounts

Directory Structure

  • Bin/ - Tools
  • PerfBin/ - Performance Tools
  • PersonalTools/ - Notes To Self, Non-work Tools
  • Projects/ - Stuff I’m Working On. Edit .gitignore If You Want Projects added To Repo.
  • TextBin/ - Tools To Modify Files, Often Using Vim
  • .ssh - SSH Public Keys
  • .vim - Vim Customization

Installing On A New Server

Requires Git, .ssh/id_github

Create a bare git repository in $HOME/.cfg. A bare repo stores its files in its base directory, not its subdirectory .git. You’ll tell git to ignore that directory. You’ll need your ssh key for the repo to clone it.

How To


REPO=$HOME/.cfg
[ -d $REPO ] || mkdir $REPO
echo ".cfg" >> .gitignore

Now clone the dotfiles into your repo


git clone --bare git@github.com:joslinpr/LinuxDotfiles.git $REPO
git clone --bare git@git.dhl.com:pjoslin/PPRJLinuxDotfiles.git $REPO

Use the “config” command when you’re changing your local files. this is so you can still use “git” on your other projects. this alias is in the ~/.alias file, but we don’t have that yet.


     alias config='/usr/bin/git --git-dir=$REPO/ --work-tree=$HOME'

Don’t clutter up your status messages with files you don’t care about. see email and name.


config config --global status.showUntrackedFiles no
config config --global user.email "Paul.Joslin@weirdness.com"
config config --global user.name  "Paul R. joslin"
config config --global pull.rebase false  #    merge (the default strategy)

Create a branch for this host and checkout. The checkout copies the files from the repo into their proper place.


TS=$(date +%Y%m%d)
export tS=$(hostname -s).$TS
config checkout -b $TS

Tutorial Source

tools to install

  • fdupes - remove duplicate files
  • git - configuration control
  • glow - terminal markdown viewer
  • python markdown - markdown (pip install markdown)
  • imagemagick - image processing
  • screen - multiplex terminal. Yes, there are better, but this is what work uses.
  • shellCheck - analyze shell scripts. Source [//]: # ( vim: set ai et nu sts=2 sw=2 ts=2 tw=78 filetype=markdown :)