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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 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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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 can I make "ls" show dotfiles first?

Somewhere along the way I screwed up my ls command and now I get this ordering when running $ ls -AhHl --color=auto -rwxr-xr-x 1 clang clang 640 Mar 1 02:46 apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png -rwxr-...
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How to store confidential info whilst using dot files framework

I'm trying to come up with a strategy to store my dotfiles in Git. So far, I've create a dotfiles repo on GitHub and I've thrown together an install script which simply clones the repo, then symlinks ...
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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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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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Strategy to maintain dotfiles for different OSs (i.e. osx and ubuntu)

I use a Git repository to maintain my dotfiles (vimrc, zshrc, tmux.conf, etc.). As I've two different operating systems (OSX at home and Ubuntu at work) I've dedicated a branch for each system. This ...
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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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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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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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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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