Ricardo's dotfiles

Installation

Warning: If you want to give these dotfiles a try, you should first fork this repository, review the code, and remove things you don’t want or need. Don’t blindly use my settings unless you know what that entails. Use at your own risk!

Clone and set up

You can clone the repository wherever you want. (I like to keep it in ~/dotfiles/ricardogaviria/dotfiles so that I can clone dotfiles from other inspirations and at the same level: ~/dotfiles) The bootstrapper script will pull in the latest version and copy the files to your home folder.

git clone https://github.com/gaviriar/dotfiles.git

Symlink all relevant dotfiles to your home directory:

./symlink-setup.sh

Courtesy of...

• Mathias Bynens
• Paul Irish
• Balajis Coursera Startup Class

Concepts:

http://www.joshstaiger.org/archives/2005/07/bash_profile_vs.html

1. .bashrc is the non-login config for bash, run in scripts and after first connection.
2. .bash_profile is the login config for bash, launched upon first connection (in Ubuntu)
3. .bash_profile imports .bashrc in our script, but not vice versa.
4. .bashrc imports .bashrc_custom in our script, which can be used to override variables specified here.

When using GNU screen:

1. .bash_profile is loaded the first time you login, and should be used only for paths and environmental settings

2. .bashrc is loaded in each subsequent screen, and should be used for aliases and things like writing to .bash_eternal_history (see below) Do 'man bashrc' for the long version or see here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bash#Startup_scripts

When Bash starts, it executes the commands in a variety of different scripts.

1. When Bash is invoked as an interactive login shell, it first reads and executes commands from the file /etc/profile, if that file exists. After reading that file, it looks for ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login, and ~/.profile, in that order, and reads and executes commands from the first one that exists and is readable.
2. When a login shell exits, Bash reads and executes commands from the file ~/.bash_logout, if it exists.
3. When an interactive shell that is not a login shell is started (e.g. a GNU screen session), Bash reads and executes commands from ~/.bashrc, if that file exists. This may be inhibited by using the --norc option. The --rcfile file option will force Bash to read and execute commands from file instead of ~/.bashrc.