`.dotfiles`

Configurations and preferences that are nice to have, but are painful and irritating to set up over and over again.

Installation

Bash

Make sure you have bash >= 4.0 installed

For OSX:

brew install bash
sudo brew ls bash | grep '/bin/bash$' >> /etc/shells
chsh -s $(brew ls bash | grep '/bin/bash$') $(whoami)

Dot file installation

bash setup.sh
# Now restart your shell

For non-bash configuration files (like .vimrc, the changes should take place the next time you launch the application).

Note: If you modify the .bashrc after doing the initial setup, just run the following:

$ refresh

And this will re-source the .bashrc and the changes will take place immediately and not require a shell restart.

For those of us new to bash

`.bashrc` vs `.bash_profile`

.bashrc is for non-login shells, and .bash_profile is for login shells. If you want something to only show up at login, do it in .bash_profile, not .bashrc. Otherwise, put it in .bashrc

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