My Personal Configuration

Many of the configuration are inspired from rwxrob and Luke Smith.

• Directory structure

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├── bash
├── dunst
├── fontconfig
├── gh
├── git
├── lynx
├── scripts
├── sxiv
│   └── exec
├── tmux
├── vim
└── x11

How to use this config?

Just using the setup script should do the trick.

New Found Knowledge

(dated May 09 2022) I found a new knowledge today that bash can debug a script without running it by giving the flags -x to bash and it will give a plus sign if the script runs fine and errors if not.

• The + and - to the x flag will evaluate a block of the script with negative being first and plus being later.

(dated May 18 2022) So the problem was that I wanted to know if my bash script is not giving any errors. And I found out about the -n flag which is used to check the syntax validity of the bash script. And this will give me a heads up which is great.

• Run scripts with the -n flag to check syntax validity.

(dated July 06 2022) While using colors on the terminal I found printf to be more reliable as because in very rare cases a Linux system could not have the command echo, which is not the case in any of the distros I have used so far. Also, found out that printf has another data type? something which is %b which is an argument as a string with \ escapes interpreted, except that octal escapes are of the form \0 or \0NNN.

• Using %b in printf will do colors in bash scripts.

(dated July 07 2022) While using conditional statements I found out on how to check if a file is a symlink or not with the -L flag. This flag inside a squared brackets checks if a file exists and is a symlink. Very useful with other flags such as the -f and -d flag. The -f flag check a file exists and is a regular file and the -d flag checks if a directory exists or not.

• Use the -L flag to check if a file exist and is a symlink.

(dated Dec 15 2022) To print values with awk having delimiter the option -F should be used. The awk command is very simple and easy to use. Today I only found out about how to print a set of values with awk. I also found out about the tr command which translates the output with the desired characters.

# The awk command
awk -F\" '{ print $2 }' # taking delimiter " and printing the second value
# the tr command
tr ' ' '\n'             # replace empty space with newline

• With awk to use it with a delimiter the option -F should be used.

TODO

• [x] Write a script to shutdown,reboot and sleep. (for Arch based distros and debian based distros)
• [x] Figure out why in Artix Linux in the openrc init system, vim does not show ascii characters and the above directory structure does not show the beautiful lines in in Artix Linux edition of vim.
• [x] Add a README to the new directories and explain about them.
• [x] Remove the need to run credential store cache commnad and implement to the config file.
• [x] Update README.md file in directories.
• [x] Write a script to shutdown,reboot and sleep. (for Arch based distros and debian based distros)
• [x] Figure out why in Artix Linux in the openrc init system, vim does not show ascii characters and the above directory structure does not show the beautiful lines in in Artix Linux edition of vim.
• [x] Add a README to the new directories and explain about them.
• [x] Remove the need to run credential store cache commnad and implement to the config file.
• [x] Update README.md file in directories.

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