TheDauthi's dotfiles

Installation

git clone --recursive https://github.com/TheDauthi/dotfiles.git ~/.shellrc/dotfiles && bash ~/.shellrc/dotfiles/install

My dotfiles should work on OSX, linux, and Cygwin. They're based on a fairly bare-bones Debian setup, as that's what I spend most of my time inside. On OSX, I use brew, and as much of the GNU userland as possible. I use zsh with oh-my-zsh, but this setup also supports bash/bash-completion if zsh is not installed. On OSX, I install the GNU toolset in place of most of the BSD ones. I test with BSD, but the GNU toolchain is more familiar to me.

On OSX, install brew first. The install in setup.d should work, but it's not called automatically on setup in case there is an existing brew install that you don't want to overwrite.

First, we checkout the repository into .shellrc/dotfiles. Then we symlink the directories into the .shellrc directory, which is what is actually included into PATH. Most importantly, this allows another user to load the shellrc without issue, usually useful for shared settings or after a su login. The top level .shellrc will also have local.d a directory, which contain machine-specific settings.

One thing that a user might want to change is the use of byobu to tmux. I haven't because byobu has given me better cross-platform terminal reconnection.

Structure

The top-level directory in my home that contains my dotfiles is called .shellrc. This directory contains the git repository itself and all of the necessary directories. The dotfiles themselves are one layer down, in .shellrc/dotfiles. Files directly part of an application's startup process are in the files directory under that, while the init directory contains the shell bootstrap process.

Included

Some features:

• language-env: loads autodetected plenv/pyenv/rbenv/nodenv environments
• pretty-mount: mount with no options is prettified
• HTTPVERBS: GET/POST/PUT/DELETE/TRACE/OPTIONS are callable as "GET http://www.google.com".

Some additional functions are packaged:

• pathprepend, pathappend: Treats $PATH as a stack and pushes/shifts arguments onto it.
• is_cygwin/is_debian/is_osx: Consistent platform detection
• _cleanup_path: Treats $PATH as an array and de-dupes it. This is most useful on Cygwin, as duplicate $PATH entries may be searched.
• _detect_shell: Detects shell without using $SHELL. During some types of sessions, $SHELL can be the preferred shell instead of the actual.

As well as scripts:

• dirsize: get the real directory size instead of the inode size.
• eachdir: cd into each matching directory, then run a command. Sure, you can do it with find/xargs, or you can save 5 minutes each time you would need to look it up
• pid: Retrieves the pid of executables matching an expression
• run-parts.sh: run-parts is a well-known script, but it doesn't exist everywhere. This is a pure-shell implementation giving 95% of the features.
• serve: the old python http program

I don't have git!

Well, you're in luck. While you lose the ability to load the plugins, the install itself can be performed via curl.

mkdir -p ~/.shellrc/dotfiles && curl -L --output - https://github.com/TheDauthi/dotfiles/archive/master.tar.gz | tar -C ~/.shellrc/dotfiles --strip-components 1 -xzf - && bash ~/.shellrc/dotfiles/install

I don't want to install anything!

Cool. There is a greatly stripped down version of this that installs nothing to your machine:

source <(curl billyconn.com/sh)

Plugins

There are three included optional plugins that will install if they will work on your platform:

fzf: fuzzy finder. Requires go for default install, use https://github.com/junegunn/fzf-bin/releases for binary release

fasd: keeps track of frecency of used paths. Like autojump, but uses shell instead of requiring python.

pathpicker: Allows you to choose paths from the user's screen buffer.