https://github.com/polatengin/dotfiles
Engin Polat's dotfiles repository
https://github.com/polatengin/dotfiles
bash dotfiles git shell
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Engin Polat's dotfiles repository
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/polatengin/dotfiles
- Owner: polatengin
- Created: 2020-05-10T16:47:38.000Z (about 6 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2024-06-06T00:10:49.000Z (about 2 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-02-03T18:56:17.618Z (over 1 year ago)
- Topics: bash, dotfiles, git, shell
- Language: Shell
- Homepage:
- Size: 726 KB
- Stars: 1
- Watchers: 3
- Forks: 1
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
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README
# What are DotFiles
*DotFiles* (files with dot `.` at the beginning of their names, such as, *.bash_aliases*, *.bash_profile*, etc.) are basically text-based configuration files.
> The legend goes that dot-files arose from a bug in the earliest days of UNIX: in an effort to avoid listing the . and .. entries of a directory, the ls command skipped files that began with the '.' character.
As a result, any file with a name beginning with '.' was not reported by ls, i.e. it was a "hidden" file.
A user's home directory was a convenient place to put user-specific configuration files, but such files were also an eyesore; one popular solution to this problem was to make those configuration files hidden so that they wouldn't annoy the user.
Thus, the tradition of dot-files was born.
You can use my `dotfiles` by executing following command on Terminal
```bash
bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/polatengin/dotfiles/master/install.sh)"
```
If you want to provide git username, email and gpg_key during configure, you can execute the following command
```bash
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/polatengin/dotfiles/master/install.sh | bash -s -- ${GIT_USERNAME} ${GIT_EMAIL} ${GPG_KEY}
```
In the [.bash_aliases](./.bash_aliases) file, you can find some aliases for _Bash_.
If you want to grab your _internal_ or _external_ IP address, every time you need to run following commands on _Terminal_
```bash
# Internal IP
ifconfig | grep -Eo 'inet (addr:)?([0-9]*\.){3}[0-9]*' | grep -Eo '([0-9]*\.){3}[0-9]*' | grep -v '127.0.0.1'
# External IP
dig +short myip.opendns.com @resolver1.opendns.com
```
If you want to test your internet speed with _100Mb_ of file, you can use web pages, such as [SpeedTest by Ookla](https://www.speedtest.net/), or you can run following command on _Terminal_
```bash
wget -O /dev/null http://speed.transip.nl/100mb.bin
```
Also, by default, _Bash_ will tell _Terminal_ window to display `username@computername current_directory_from_root$` at the beginning of the command line.
If you want to change this pattern you need to change global `PS1` variable.
In the [.bash_profile](./.bash_profile) file, you can find couple of helper methods and exposed `PS1` variable to make it `➜ current_directory_name $`
Other than that, with the helper methods, it can understand if you're in a _git_ folder and parse the current _git branch_.
Also, it can understand if the current _git branch_ has some changes didn't pushed to the repo yet and add `✗` character at the end.
## References
[What are dotfiles](https://www.quora.com/What-are-dotfiles)
[Git Status Documentation](https://git-scm.com/docs/git-status)