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Dotfiles
If you're following One Folder, then your PKB is a great place to put your Dotfiles. Configuring a new machine can look as simple as:
- 1.Synchronize your PKB.
- 2.Deploy your dotfiles.
- 3.You're ready to be productive!
There are a variety of ways to do this, so we'll just look at a dead-simple setup, and you can add more advanced tools to your heart's content.
Bash and Symlinks
The idea here is pretty simple. Assuming you have a folder
~/pkb/Dotfiles/ , what we want to do is to put your actual dotfiles in this folder, and then symlink them to where the applications are expecting to find them. Here's a very crude version of what this might look like:1
~/pkb/Dotfiles$ ls -a
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.bash_justin install.sh git/ sublime/
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When I set up a new computer, the first thing I do is synchronize my PKB, and then I run the
install.sh script above, which does the following:install.sh
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#!/usr/bin/sh
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# link dotfiles
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export DOTFILES_DIR=/home/justin/pkb/Dotfiles
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ln -f -n -s $DOTFILES_DIR/git $HOME/.git
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ln -f -s $HOME/.git/.gitconfig $HOME/.gitconfig
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mkdir -p $HOME/.config/sublime-text-3/Packages
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ln -f -n -s $DOTFILES_DIR/sublime $HOME/.config/sublime-text-3/Packages/User
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# Add utility env-vars and utility bash aliases/functions
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if ! grep .bash_justin ~/.bashrc ; then
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echo "if [ -f \$DOTFILES_DIR/.bash_justin ]; then" >> ~/.bashrc
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echo " . \$DOTFILES_DIR/.bash_justin" >> ~/.bashrc
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echo "fi" >> ~/.bashrc
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fi
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This is an idempotent script (the
-f and -n flags are important), and so if you discover a new set of dotfiles to preserve, e.g. .my.cnf, move it into the Dotfiles folder, add the corresponding symlink command to the install script (ln -f -s $HOME/.my.cnf $DOTFILES_DIR/.my.cnf), and then re-run the install script.Now, if any of your configurations change, they'll automatically be preserved in your PKB and propagate across all of your devices.
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