DISCLAIMER!!!

Do not use this repository if you have critical bashrc and bash aliases commands. This project is specifically intended as a convenience tool for casual bash users. Please proceed with caution.

About

This is project is aimed at Ubuntu 16.04 users who often use bash, terminator, Atom and Anaconda.

Its intention is to quickly deploy the same bash experience on any system. If you use this tool you will no longer edit or update the ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_aliases directly. Instead you will make changes to ~/projects/autobash/bashrc_append and ~/projects/autobash/aliases. The changes you make here can be committed to git and when you move to a new system, you can git clone & pull and all your personal settings will be imported.

Current Version: 0.2.0 (no version control yet)

Autobash does the following:

Auto appends the ~/.bashrc to make the bash prompt look a little more practical with support for GIT and Anaconda
Auto creates aliases for easy project access with terminator and Atom.
Auto creates aliases and bashrc files for use with Anaconda environments.
Auto creates aliases for quick download of tools and added them to local path.

Auto creates terminator profiles for each project.
Auto creates fzf support with which you can even quick look up fzf_snippets with Alt+E shortcut.

Dependencies

Install terminator gtk3

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome-terminator/nightly-gtk3
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install terminator

Install Atom by downloading it from their website
Install Anaconda by downloading it from their website and make sure to install it in the following path ~/anaconda3/ and don't append the ~/anaconda3/bin path to the ~/.bashrc.

How To - First Time

Step 1: Take a backup of `~/.bashrc` and `~/.bash_aliases` and `~/.bash_profile`

Autobash overwrites ~/.bashrc and ~/.bash_aliases and ~/.bash_profile files, therefore it is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED (mandatory even) to take a backup of these files. If anything were to go wrong just restore the backup files and you should be as good as before.

cp ~/.bashrc ~/.bashrc.bak && \
cp ~/.bash_aliases ~/.bash_aliases.bak && \
cp ~/.bash_profile ~/.bash_profile.bak && \

Step 2: Create a projects folder

It is highly recommended that you put all your projects in one single folder on your file system. For example /home/user/projects/.

Example project paths

project "foo" location: /home/user/projects/foo
project "bar" location: /home/user/projects/bar

Step 3: Clone the repository

Clone the repository into the projects folder. For illustration, we will assume /home/user/projects/ is the projects folder such that we end up with /home/user/projects/autobash

git clone https://github.com/nitred/autobash.git
cd autobash

Step 4: Add custom bashrc commands to `autobash/bashrc_append`

The ~/.bashrc file is recreated by Autobash by merging the default bashrc skeleton from /etc/skel/.bashrc with autobash/bashrc_append. Therefore you must add your custom bashrc commands to autobash/bashrc_append.

It is recommended that you add your custom bashrc under the user section which is demarcated.

############ AUTOBASH - USER SECTION ################
<add your custom bashrc commands here>
################# AUTOBASH - END ####################

Feel free to change the default section of the autobash/bashrc_append provided you know what you're doing. The default section is demarcated as follows:
##################### AUTOBASH ######################

Step 5: Add custom aliases to `autobash/aliases`

The ~/.bash_aliases file is recreated by Autobash by merging autobash/aliases with an auto generated list of project aliases.Therefore you must add your custom aliases to autobash/aliases.

Step 6: Add project names to `autobash/projects`

Add the name of your project to the PROJECTS variable. The name that you add here must be same as the name of the directory of the project.

NOTE: The PROJECTS variable should already contain a default project called autobash which should not be edited.

PROJECTS=(
"autobash              ;aliases;no_anaconda"
"foo                   ;aliases;no_anaconda"
"bar                   ;aliases;no_anaconda"
)

TODO: Anaconda aliases
TODO: Project aliases
TODO: Project conda aliases

Step 7: Run the script

Run the script by running the following:

cd autobash
source cp_autobash

How To After First Time

Perform Step 4 to change the custom bashrc
Perform Step 5 to change the custom aliases
Perform Step 6 to add a new project
After the first time, an alias is generated such that it can be called from anywhere to update Autobash. Just run the following from anywhere.

cp-autobash

What aliases have been added?

Just have a look at your ~/.bash_aliases to check all the aliases that have been auto generated along with the custom aliases.

nitred/autobash