Dotfiles
my dotfiles
I keep all of my beloved UNIX dotfiles in an gzip archive here:
dotfiles.tar.gz
Some of the more interesting dotfiles to me are:
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.
# 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!