My previous dotfiles collection has grown over the years to encompass a huge variety of features that were bash focused. Setup relied on some gnu packages that are not available on all systems. The functions wrapping git functionality and other per-prompt processing loaded down the shell and lengthened startup times.
This repository is a reboot. I've stripped out a lot, but kept most of the more useful features that I take advantage of day-by-day. These dotfiles are designed to run with /bin/sh or dash as the interactive shell. While I may still run bash on some machines for tab-completion, this set should prove more portable.
- Install with
install.sh. - Uninstall with
uninstall.sh.
Since everything is shoved into .profile there's nothing set up path-wise for non-login script execution, like cronjobs. I add the following to my user cron if I need the environment populated:
SHELL=/bin/bash
BASH_ENV="/home/tomasino/.profile"
The install process will run through this repository recursively looking for individual files. It will link any files into the home directory on an individual file-by-file basis. If the corresponding folder doesn't exist yet, it will be created. The purpose of going file-by-file is to avoid linking any directories and accidentally scooping up other files that may be added there over time.