dotfiles

Features

• A wealth of bash and git aliases scoured from the internet
• Beautiful terminal PS1 and message-of-the-day-style prompt at start of session
• Sane defaults for shell options and builtins (rm -I --preserve-root, mkdir -pv, grep --color=auto, etc.)
• Config files and settings for vim, ripgrep, abcde, and shellcheck

Setup

1. Clone this repository into a directory of your choice. I recommend using the XDG_CONFIG_HOME directory. ($HOME/.config)

   cd "${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-$HOME/.config}"
   git clone https://git.nightfirec.at/nightfirecat/dotfiles.git
   

2. Run setup.sh

   "${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-$HOME/.config}"/dotfiles/setup.sh
   

Once completed, all necessary symlinks will be created for environment setup. Restart your login for the .bash_profile to take effect.

Post-setup

There are a few optional files which can be created in the home directory after setup is complete which can aid in environment setup:

• .user.gitconfig: This is primarily used as a way to set up GPG commit signing (as shown in .user.gitconfig.dist), but can also be used to change the git user name or email on systems which should use something besides your personal details. (eg. work email on a work machine)
• .bash_profile.after and .bashrc.after: These files can be created to run following completion of .bash_profile and .bashrc, respectively. This is primarily useful for overriding environment variables pointing to paths of binaries, or adjust aliases which don't work in environments with varying coreutils support for convenience flags.

Uninstall

Run setup.sh --remove to clear any symlinks created by the setup process.