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Like many Unix hackers who move around from machine to machine I often found I spent a lot of time messing around setting up my environment. Eventually I moved all my dotfiles into version control and scripted up some quick set-up instructions.

• Bootstrapping This basically runs un-trusted shell script from the internet. You shouldn't do it unless you are confident it won't hose your system. I offer no such guarantees ;-) #+name: How to bootstrap my set-up #+begin_src sh wget -O - https://raw.github.com/stsquad/dotfiles/master/bootstrap.sh | bash #+end_src
• Layout This repository contains "dotfiles" for bash and a whole bunch of other bits and pieces. The script [[file:setup_dotfiles.sh][setup_dotfiles.sh]] will symlink all the files in their correct place. Currently if you add new files it needs to be re-run. ** Bash files Each "dotbash_${FEATURE}" file is translated to ~/.bash_${FEATURE}. The main [[file:dotbash_profile][.bash_profile]] code runs some basic tests to see if it's worth loading the snippet: #+name: Example feature check for loading dotbash_keys #+begin_src sh load_extra_module keys ssh-agent gpg-agent keychain #+end_src ** ~/.config Files in [[file:dotconfig/][dotconfig]] are treated the same although the sub-directory is created for them by the setup script. ** Per-user or machine files Sometimes you want to only have certain setups for different users or machines. This is dealt with by pre-pending the dotfile with ${USER} or ${HOSTNAME}. Currently dotconfig directories are not supported.
• TODO Things I want to fixup one day [0/2] ** TODO Make .bash_profile search the repository There is no reason the sub-modules couldn't be kept in a directory in the repository to avoid cluttering up ~ ** TODO Make the dotfiles work with zsh In theory it should be compatible, I need to try this out.