Dotfiles

my dotfiles

I keep all of my beloved UNIX dotfiles online here:

   dotfiles

The three most important files to me are:

• .bashrc
• .bashrc_aliases
• .vimrc
• .mutt

I tried to get all of the bash dot files 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. This doesn't always work too well with older BSD systems.

.dotfiles sync script

I have a shell script that I can run to periodically 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.

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!