This is the profile that I’m now using across a number of machines that I administer. Most of the tricks I use are fairly general and could be reused by anyone.
# Go home cd ~ # Clone mine or your own fork git clone git://github.com/zackwag/profile.git .profile.d # All *.conf files are loaded alphabetically, so this will retain your original settings mv .profile .profile.d/z_myoldsettings.conf # .profile.d/init kicks off the whole thing ln -s .profile.d/init .profile # Make sure you don't have any .bash_profile or .bashrc hanging out which might override .profile # and reload your profile source .profile
From here you can now put any *.conf in ~/.profile.d and it’ll get loaded in alphabetical order. You can also put conf files in ~/.profile.d/`uname` to get platform-specific configuration or ~/.profile.d/$USER to get user-specific configuration. The load order (defined in the init file) is:
- .profile.d/init
- .profile.d/*.conf
- .profile.d/$USER/*.conf
- .profile.d/`uname`/*.conf
- .profile.d/$USER/`uname`/*.conf
- Reactive prompt – includes date and exit code of last command and git branch.
- Tab Completion for Git and Subversion
- Tab completion for Rake, Maven 2 and Ant
- Tab completion for ssh hosts on OS X.
- Git aliases
- ‘safeedit’ function that makes a timestamped backup copy of a file before editing
- Basic java set up on solaris and Darwin
- Maven memory settings
- ‘profile_push’ function for pushing these files out to other servers
- ‘link_dotfiles’ command that will create symlinks for all the files listed in the dotfiles directory
- Auto setup of .foward file on Linux and Solaris
- Integration with CDArgs
- Autojump
- Tab completion for ssh hosts in Solaris/Ubuntu
- Single-command for SSH key distribution and profile distribution