~/.bashrc
It’s taken me a while, but I think I’ve finally got my bashrc files to a setup I’m pretty happy with. I’ve provided it here in hopes that others might find it useful…
The main thing I was trying to accomplish here was to have a single set of files that I could use on all the machines I
work on. This becomes more complicated considering what I use… my personal machine is MacOS X, this website is hosted
on Linux, and my primary development machine at UofM is SunOS. Additionally, there are certain settings I want on all
Visible School machines (regardless of OS or hostname) but no others. Additionally, I like to have a minimalistic
terminal prompt, so I use color to know what host I’m connected to. What I ended up with is this
~/.bashrc
This file is basically a launchpad for all of my other files, so let me explain how this all works line by line…
HOST=`hostname | sed "s/\..*$//"`
DOMAIN=`hostname | sed "s/^[^\.]*//" | sed "s/^\.//"`
First, I need to know the hostname and the domain of the machine I’m presently using. I’ve found the above one-liners to work on every operating system I’ve tested so far.
[ -f /etc/bashrc ] && [ -r /etc/bashrc ] && source /etc/bashrc
If the machine has a system-wide bashrc that is readable, go ahead and execute that. This is where a system administrator may setup PATHs specific to this machine.
[ -f ~/.bash/all ] && [ -r ~/.bash/all ] && source ~/.bash/all
~/.bash/all.pre.login
contains things
that should be used by all machines… things like my name, default editor, various aliases, etc, as well as a custom
function to setup my prompt
Comments and responses
great! I find youre git-repro too!
If I had time I write a german post about this like this one about osx bash
thx