Questions tagged [dotfiles]
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Why is `~/.zlogout` not sourced when non-interactive ZSH shell runs `exit`?
My ~/.zlogout contains the following:
echo '~/.zlogout!'
Let's run the following script:
su user -ls /bin/zsh -c 'echo kaasbier; exit'
Nothing is echoed (besides the kaasbier). I am testing this in ...
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Dot - Making large, almost arbitrary graph with labeled edges more readable
I have a (currently in-progress) directed graph that I am creating with Dot. The attached image is what I have so far. As you can see, it is hard to read because it is difficult to tell what labels ...
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How to `zcompile` global (system-wide) zsh scripts?
For my local dotfiles I have this snippet at the end of my .zshrc:
for f in ~/.zshrc ~/.zshenv ; do
[ "${f}"(:A) -ot "$f".zwc ] || zcompile "$f"
done
This ensures ...
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how to move ssh-key related files to another directory?
i've been trying to clean up my root directory so that it isn't clustered with random dotfiles. nonetheless, on setting up the ssh-key i came to a dead-end, where i wouldn't find a way to migrate ...
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What means "bind c screen" in .screenrc config?
I only want to understand what the lines in this .screenrc config does:
bind c screen 1
bind ^c screen 1
bind 0 select 10
screen 1
I found the config here:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/
Through this my ...
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How do I install Chrome shortcut app via the command line?
As a Ubuntu user who has his own dotfiles I would like to install windowed Chrome (shortcut) apps via my dotfiles. So if I do a fresh install I also have setup my Chrome shortcut apps (like outlook).
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GNU stow. Only symlink files, not directories
I'd like to manage my dotfiles with a Git repository and stow. Here is my current repository that includes the files/directories I'd like to stow and a Makefile with the command I'm using make stow.
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How do I move all of my dotfiles to a custom directory?
I'm a Mac user and I was wondering if there was a way to put all of my dotfiles to a .config folder to store all of them (something analogue to XDG Directories on Linux).
I was trying to set up a ....
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Symlink one directory, its contents and file structure to target directory, with automatic updates
Asked something similar a while ago in Unix&Linux but got yelled at, so will try again...
Let me take a directory called DIR with the structure
DIR/
|----> file1.txt
|----> file2.txt
|----&...
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gnu stow to ignore dirs
I am relatively new in stow (using for last 6 months). While this is working fine for backing up my config files, it is actually storing unwanted files, and not obeying my .stow-local-ignore.
I am ...
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Copy single dotfile from a folder to another on local machine
Before you downvote, I have read the following solutions:
How do I copy file named starting with a dot?
How to copy with cp to include hidden files and hidden directories and their contents?
Linux / ...
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What is ranger's show_hidden_bookmarks setting good for?
Ranger's man page states:
show_hidden_bookmarks [bool]
Show dotfiles in the bookmark preview window? (Type ')
I played around with it but can not figure out what it actually does. My bookmark ...
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Exclude hidden folders using rsync, but Include specific hidden folders and include all hidden files
There are a lot of posts about rsync exclude being particular, I know, and I've spent some time digging myself for a solution, but thought it more expedient to defer to community mind power, which I'm ...
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Is a single dot a valid filename in Windows?
A dot (.) can be part of a file or directory name including the first and last position. On UNIX a single dot in a path refers to the current directory and can thus always be resolved to a directory ...
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bash automatically executing a tool-specific configuration file on login
My project uses an internal tool on Linux, that uses a file called .spacerc for configuring some environmental variables.
The strange thing is, whenever I start a (non-login interactive) bash shell - ...
