dotbash

DEPRECATED: See config

This repository contains my basic environment setup. It contains a number of different configuration tweaks that I have built up over the years. Hopefully it is organized in a way that is easy to understand and easy to modify for your own uses if you so wish.

Install

mkdir -p github; cd github
git clone https://github.com/nthnca/dotbash.git
cp $PWD/dotbash/example.bashrc ~/.bashrc
ln ~/.bashrc ~/.bash_profile
ln $PWD/dotbash/tmux.conf ~/.tmux.conf

At this point open .bashrc and tweak any variables referred to there.

Features

Insanely useful prompt

Normally it will look something like (the prompts also have color):

[mybox] ~/dir$

But it can also show you if you are running bash inside bash (recursion depth), it can show you if there are any background processes running, what the return status of the last command was, the current git repository you are in, and what branch the repo is on. So if you were running bash inside bash (so a depth of 2), you had 3 background processes running, the last command had returned an error code of 4, your current git repo is dotbash, and you are on the master branch it will look something like:

[mybox-d2-j3-ERR4] dotbash[master]/bash$

It is also relatively easy to add support for other types of repositories in addition to the git support.

Quick customization

• eal - open a window to edit your bash aliases.
• xal - reload your bash aliases

Good defaults

Useful defaults for cd, df, rm, and ls commands.

Multiple chrome profiles

If you want multiple chrome profiles (for example one for work and on for your personal account) in your bashrc set:

CHROME_USERS="work personal"

This will give you a startworkchrome and a startpersonalchrome command to open a chrome window for two different profiles.

git repos

When you set the REPO_PATHS environment variable to the set of directories that contain your git repositories, the following commands will work:

• rls: Lists all of your git repositories
• rst: Fetches and gets a basic status for each
• rpull: Does a pull for each
• rpush: Does a push for each

And more

There are numerous other features such as scrambling your git commit timestamps, localized git shortcuts, aliases for cd'ing to your repositories, and more. I would encourage you to dig through the source code for more details.