Malik’s dotfiles

Installation

Warning: If you want to give these dotfiles a try, you should first fork this repository, review the code, and remove things you don’t want or need. Don’t blindly use my settings unless you know what that entails. Use at your own risk!

Using Git and the bootstrap script

You can clone the repository wherever you want. (I like to keep it in ~/git/my-dotfiles.) The bootstrapper script will pull in the latest version and copy the files to your home folder.

git clone https://github.com/browne0/my-dotfiles.git && cd my-dotfiles && source bootstrap.sh

To update, cd into your local my-dotfiles repository and then:

source bootstrap.sh

Alternatively, to update while avoiding the confirmation prompt:

set -- -f; source bootstrap.sh

Specify the $PATH

If ~/.path exists, it will be sourced along with the other files, before any feature testing (such as detecting which version of ls is being used) takes place.

Here’s an example ~/.path file that adds /usr/local/bin to the $PATH:

export PATH="/usr/local/bin:$PATH"

Feedback

Suggestions/improvements welcome!

Thanks to…

Mathias Bynens and his dotfiles configuration that gave me inspiration and a place to start!