Dot Files

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This directory holds useful dot file configurations.

Dot files are hidden on unix like systems (Unix, Linux and Darwin/Mac ).

Just copy&paste the relevant lines of the appropriate dotfile into your machine version.

Terminals

There are two popular terminal programs:

• Terminal (by default installed in MacOS)
• iTerm2 (very popular open source terminal app)

Shells

There are several varieties of shell programs. Two popular ones are:

• zsh

• bash

They are configured using hidden dot files stored in the users home directory.

(Type echo $HOME to see your home directory.)

MacOS

zsh is now the default on MacOS Catalina onwards

Terminal - bash: .bashrc and .bash_profile

If you use Terminal, then your default shell program is bash.

It is recommended to use .bashrc for configurations and .bash_profile only loads .bashrc.

You could:

1. Make a .bashrc file in your home directory
   • either run touch ~/.bashrc
   • or save an empty file called ~/.bashrc from your favorite text editor
2. Move the contents of your existing ~/.bash_profile to ~/.bashrc
3. Paste the contents of bash_profile to your now empty ~/.bash_profile
   • this tell ~/.bash_profile to load to ~/.bashrc
4. Run the commands chmod 700 ~/.bash_profile and chmod 700 ~/.bashrc

Now you can copy&paste configurations from this repository's .bashrc to your .bashrc

iTerm - zsh: .zshrc

Some users may prefer to use the z shell that comes with the iTerm2 program.

The environment for this is configured with .zshrc

Just copy&paste configurations from this repository's .zshrc to your .zshrc