Awesome Bash Dotfiles

An elegant way to manage dotfiles, commands, completions, configurations for terminal players.

Make Bash Great Again!

Currently, it is only a personal workplace rather than a framework. So you should FORK the REPO first before using it. The framework is coming soon.

TOC

• Environments
• Features
• Preview
• Version
• Core Dependencies
• Optional Integrations
• Related Projects
• Inspired By
• Installation
  • Bootstrap
• Configuration
  • User Modifications
  • UI
  • Soft-links
• Usage
  • bashrc
  • Binary executables
  • Sub-commands
  • Enable custom plugins
  • Plugin Load Priority
• File Structure
• Bash initialization process
• Advanced Usage
• Suggestion, Bug Reporting, Contributing
• Copyright and License

Environments

• ✅ iTerm2 Build 3.0.14 (Terminal.app compatible)
• ✅ GNU bash 4.4+ and 5.0+ (Not support Bash 4.3 and lower versions)
• ✅ Tmux 2.7+ (Not necessary. Tmux compatible)
• ✅ MacOS Intel Arch
• ✅ MacOS ARM Arch
• ✅ Linux/Unix system
• 🚫 Windows system
• 🚫 Zsh. This project is just for Bash players. Zsh players should use Oh My Zsh.

Features

• Manage collections of dotfiles. Create soft-link via dotbot. See the files in ./dotbot.conf/.
• Manage shell scripts by modules.
  • Most features are implemented in separate plugins, which could be disabled by yourself.
  • All plugins are put in plugins/. a list plugin -a to print all available names.
  • All completions are put in completions/. a list completion -a to print all available names.
  • All aliases are put in aliases/. a list alias -a to print all available names.
  • All enabled plugins/completions/aliases are put in enabled/ directory.
  • You can extend new types.
• Compatible with bash-completion (for bash 3.x) and bash-completion2 (for bash 4.x).
• Responsive and pretty prompt. Refer to Preview.
• Collections of shell commands, which locates in bin/. Refer to Binary executables.
• Managed sub-commands in bin/sub/. The sub-commands framework is modified from sub.
• Define XDG Environment variables which follow XDG Base Directory Specification. See ./bash/xdg.bash.
• Integrated all my best practices with shell (bash).
  • Extended keyboard bindings. See ./plugins/keymap.bash.
  • Flexible completion. Tab and Shift+Tab to make completion in circle. See ./plugins/completion.bash
  • Extended Bash history settings. See ./plugins/history.bash.
  • Extended Bash manpage. See ./plugins/manpage.bash.
  • Patch shell for macos. See ./plugins/macos.bash.
  • Pretty ls command. See ./plugins/ls.bash.
  • Pretty less command. See ./plugins/lesspipe.bash.
  • Safe rm command. See ./plugins/rm.bash.
  • Support Secret Data.
  • Support true color.
  • Set some mirror hosts for users in China.
• Many third integrations
  • z.lua. See ./plugins/zl.bash.
  • fzf. See the configuration and ./plugins/fzf.bash.
  • taskbook.
  • cheat. See ./plugins/cheat.bash
  • My best practices with neovim. See ./plugins/nvim.bash and my neovim configuration.
  • My best practices with tmux. See ./plugins/tmux.bash and ./configs/tmux.conf.
  • My best practices with git. See ./plugins/git.bash and ./configs/gitconfig.
  • My cheat sheets based on chrisallenlane/cheat.
  • Support bash-preexec. It provides preexec and precmd functions for Bash just like Zsh. See ./plugins/preexec.bash.
  • Support vscode. See ./plugins/vscode.bash.
  • Support GNU utilities for mac. See ./plugins/gnutools-for-mac.bash and ./plugins/sed-for-mac.bash.
  • Support programming language related like nvm, rust, gvm.

Preview

The prompt is implemented by a-bash-prompt. See ./plugins/prompt.bash.

Responsive prompt. Press Enter to auto adjust with window width.

Show last command exit status

Highlight Backgound jobs:

Use sub commands:

Version

See releases.

Core Dependencies

• python: It is required. Make sure it available before installation. Python 2 and 3 are both supported.
• git: It is required. Make sure it available before installation.
  • git-prompt: If omitted, PS1 will not show git prompt.
• dotbot: To create symbolic links and manage them by dotbot.conf.yaml. No need to install it manually. It is a submodule of project.

Optional Integrations

These integrations are not required for the project. It will improve the experience of terminal. Install them by yourself.

• exa
• cheat
• fzf
• ag
• tmux: An awesome terminal multiplexer!
• trash
• z.lua

Related Projects

• dotbot: A tool that bootstraps your dotfiles.
• lobash: A modern, safe, powerful utility library for Bash script development.
• a-bash-prompt: A Bash prompt written by pure Bash script.
• bash-sensible: An attempt at saner Bash defaults.
• neovim: Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability
• neovim-config: My neovim config

Inspired By

• sub: A delicious way to organize programs created by basecamp. But no more maintained.
• bash-it: A community Bash framework.

Installation

# Set your Dotfiles directory path
DOTFILES_DIR=~/dotfiles

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/adoyle-h/dotfiles.git $DOTFILES_DIR

$DOTFILES_DIR/install

And then read the Configuration - User Modifications section.

Bootstrap

IT IS UNDER DEVELOPMENT. DO NOT USE!

Run ./bootstrap to initialize in a new environment.

Do not call the script under sudo.

Configuration

User Modifications

These parts of below files you should modify.

./configs/gitconfig:

cd $DOTFILES_DIR
mkdir ./secrets
cat <<EOF >./secrets/gitconfig.user
[user]
    name = your name
    email = your email
EOF

UI

$TERM should be xterm-256color or screen-256color for best appearance.

Install the font DejaVuSansMonoForPowerline Nerd Font and color scheme Deep (color scheme - installation) by yourself.

Soft-links

Edit the files in dotbot.conf/.

Usage

bashrc

The bashrc file is managed by yourself. You must export DOTFILES_DIR points to dotfiles directory.

For example,

# ~/.bashrc: executed by bash(1) for non-login shells.

# Only execute this file once
[[ -n "${_BASHRC_LOADED:-}" ]] && return
_BASHRC_LOADED=true

export DOTFILES_DIR=$HOME/dotfiles
readonly DOTFILES_SUB=a
source "$DOTFILES_DIR/bash/entry.bash"

Binary executables

All your own binary executables should be put in bin folder, which has been added to $PATH.

Sub-commands

Executable commands could be put in bin/sub/ . These commands are referred as sub-commands. For example,

• a help to show help information
• a bins to show all commands in ./bin/
• a commands to show all commands in ./bin/sub/
• a config DEBUG=on and a config DEBUG=off to open/close debug mode

All sub-commands are auto-completed. Type a <Tab> to see all sub-commands.

You can change the trigger word a to other word by setting readonly DOTFILES_SUB=<trigger_word> in bashrc. If DOTFILES_SUB not set, it defaults to DOTFILES_SUB=sub-bin.

The path bin/sub/ is not included in $PATH. So you cannot invoke sub-commands directly.

Enable custom plugins

The framework provides many custom plugins, aliases, completions. and some sub-commands to manage them.

• a enable <type> <name>... to enable plugins in plugins/
• a disable <type> <plugin-name>... to disable plugins in enabled/
• a disable-all <type> to disable all plugins in enabled/
• a list <type> to show all enabled plugins in enabled/
• a list <type> -a to show all plugins in plugins/

Plugin Load Priority

Put # BASH_IT_LOAD_PRIORITY: <PRIORITY> at the head of script to set loading priority. The priority defaults to 500.

General priorities of plugs:

• Plugin: 300~499, default 400
• Completion: 500~699, default 600
• Alias: 700~899, default 800

File Structure

.
├── README.md
├── aliases/                        # Available aliases
├── bash/
│   ├── inputrc                     # Set shortcut Key Character Sequence (keyseq). Link to ~/.inputrc
├── bash/
│   ├── bash_it.lib.bash            # Store essential helper functions for all dotfiles modules
│   ├── bash_profile                # Link to ~/.bash_profile
│   ├── bashrc                      # Link to ~/.bashrc
│   ├── bashrc.failover.bash        # failover for ~/.bashrc
│   ├── check-environment.bash
│   ├── debug.bash
│   ├── enable-plugs.bash
│   ├── entry.bash                  # The entrypoint of dotfiles
│   ├── failover.bash
│   ├── inputrc                     # Link to ~/.inputrc
│   ├── plugable.bash
│   ├── profile                     # Link to ~/.profile
│   ├── sub.bash                    # The entrypoint of SUB command
│   └── xdg.bash                    # Set XDG_ variables
├── bin/                            # Link to ~/bin
├── bootstraps/                     # Scripts for bootstraping
│   └── recommended_plugs*          # Enabled recommended plugins/completions/aliaes
├── bootstrap*                      # (WIP) To install dotfiles framework and system tools from bare system
├── install*                        # To install dotfiles framework
├── cheat/                          # It is ignored in git. git clone https://github.com/adoyle-h/my-command-cheat cheat
├── completions/                    # Available completions
├── configs/                        # Application configuration
├── docs/                           # The documents of this project
├── dotbot*                         # Create soft-links based on dotbot.conf.yaml
├── dotbot.conf                     # Dotbot configurations
│   ├── debian-server.yaml          # For Debian Server
│   ├── debian.yaml                 # For general Linux system
│   └── macos.yaml                  # For MacOS system
├── deps/                           # Git submodules
│   ├── a-bash-prompt/              # https://github.com/adoyle-h/a-bash-prompt
│   ├── dotbot/                     # https://github.com/anishathalye/dotbot
│   ├── nvim/                       # My neovim configurations.
│   ├── z.lua/                      # https://github.com/skywind3000/z.lua
│   ├── colors.bash
│   ├── dotfiles_l.bash             # Similar to lobash.bash. Work for dotfiles scripts.
│   └── lobash.bash                 # https://github.com/adoyle-h/lobash
├── enabled/                        # Enabled plugins/completions/aliases. soft-link files
│   └── 140---shell.plugin.bash -> ../plugins/shell.bash
├── plugins/                        # Available plugins
│   ├── completions.bash            # General completions and tab complete keymap
│   ├── preexec.bash                # Enable bash-preexec library
│   └── prompt.bash                 # Enable a-bash-prompt
├── runtime/                        # Available plugins
│   └── bash_config.bash            # Dotfiles runtime config
└── secrets/                        # This folder is ignored by git. Put your secret data here.

Bash initialization process

It will execute scripts in order:

1. ./bash/bashrc
2. ./bash/entry.bash
3. ./enabled/*.bash

Advanced Usage

If you want to extend the framework. See this document.

There are many tricks you may be interested.

Suggestion, Bug Reporting, Contributing

Any comments and suggestions are always welcome. Please open an issue to contact with me.

Copyright and License

Copyright (c) 2017-2022 ADoyle ([email protected]). The project is licensed under the BSD 3-clause License.

See the LICENSE file for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.

See the NOTICE file distributed with this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.