Install and share Bashmarks between multiple user?

[nemeth-it]

Sorry if this question already aked anywhere... I didn't found it. But can remember that i read something about it in the past.

To share the marks between multiple user... i think it is enough to sync the .sdirs file.
But I would like to know how I've to install Bashmarks to make it usable for all users.

Or did I really have to install it on each user again?

[daveharris]

Hi @INOVEK,

You don't need to install it for each user. It's installed to /usr/local/bin/bashmarks.sh which is purposely used for this reason.

In each users's ~/.bash_profile/~/.bashrc you just need to add (like normal):

source /usr/local/bin/bashmarks.sh

As for linking the .sdirs file, I suggest that you simply use a symlink to connect to the two:

# allow users in your group to read and write the file. If the two users aren't in the same group you will need 666
chmod 664 ~/.sdirs 
# create a symlink between the two files
sudo ln -s ~/.sdirs /Users/user2/.sdirs 
# show the symlink
sudo ls -l /Users/user2/.sdirs 
# it should display something like
# lrwxr-xr-x   1 user2  staff    18 19 May 08:40 /Users/user2/.sdirs -> /Users/user1/.sdirs

Let me know how you get on! Happy to help out if it doesn't work.

Dave

[nemeth-it]

Greetings, sorry for the long wait.
Yeah I did it like you said and it worked like a charm.

I think this hint could be a nice entry for your wiki or such thing.

At the end I've to thanks for your script itself, too. It has made navigating and working so much more comfortable and I never want to miss this feature ever again.

Good work!