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Revision as of 04:38, 15 January 2008
my dotfiles
I keep all of my beloved UNIX dotfiles in an gzip archive here:
dotfiles.tar.gz
You can browse the individual dotfiles here:
.bashrc .bash_aliases .vim/ .vimrc .inputrc .lynxrc .mailcap .pythonrc .screenrc bin/ .fonts/ .mutt/ .subversion/
I try to get all of the bash dotfiles to work on both Linux and BSD, with Linux being favored. I don't like my dotfiles to depend too much on the platform I'm running on, but this doesn't always work too well with older BSD systems. It's harmless when it fails. Sometimes I get warning when I login on really old BSD systems.
.dotfiles sync script
I have a shell script that I run to pull down the latest versions and update my home directory:
.dotfiles
The first thing I do on a new system is grab the .dotfiles script and then run it to download and sync all the other dotfiles. You have to chmod 755 the script to run it.
# wget http://www.noah.org/engineering/dotfiles/.dotfiles # chmod 755 .dotfiles # ./.dotfiles
The strategy that I use is to have all of my systems use exactly the same dotfiles. Of course, I want some options to be unique to each local machine. To handle this I have each dotfile include a local version that is not updated by the dotfiles sync script. For example, the .bashrc file includes .bashrc_local.
I considered using something like SVN to store these dot files, but I found this little script simpler and quicker for my needs.
more dotfiles
www.dotfiles.com has lots of dotfiles. Lots!