https://github.com/jamestomasino/dotfiles-minimal

A minimal, portable dotfiles setup for using dash as interactive shell on linux or bsd
https://github.com/jamestomasino/dotfiles-minimal

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A minimal, portable dotfiles setup for using dash as interactive shell on linux or bsd

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/jamestomasino/dotfiles-minimal
• Owner: jamestomasino
• Created: 2019-12-25T17:38:34.000Z (almost 5 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-08-10T12:23:27.000Z (3 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-08-10T13:50:21.825Z (3 months ago)
• Language: Shell
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• Size: 766 KB
• Stars: 8
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 5
• Open Issues: 1
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  • Readme: README.md

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# dotfiles

My previous [dotfiles](https://github.com/jamestomasino/dotfiles) collection has grown over the years to encompass a huge variety of features that were `bash` focused. Setup relied on some gnu packages that are not available on all systems. The functions wrapping git functionality and other per-prompt processing loaded down the shell and lengthened startup times.

This repository is a reboot. I've stripped out a lot, but kept most of the more useful features that I take advantage of day-by-day. These dotfiles are designed to run with `/bin/sh` or `dash` as the interactive shell. While I may still run `bash` on some machines for tab-completion, this set should prove more portable.

## Usage

* Install with `install.sh`.

* Uninstall with `uninstall.sh`.

## Non-login environment

Since everything is shoved into .profile there's nothing set up path-wise for non-login script execution, like cronjobs. I add the following to my user cron if I need the environment populated:

```

SHELL=/bin/bash

BASH_ENV="/home/tomasino/.profile"

```

## Linking strategy

The install process will run through this repository recursively looking for individual files. It will link any files into the home directory on an individual file-by-file basis. If the corresponding folder doesn't exist yet, it will be created. The purpose of going file-by-file is to avoid linking any directories and accidentally scooping up other files that may be added there over time.