skel

skel consists of BASH environment skeleton files and command line helper scripts.

Install

Open the command line to your home directory and then run the following commands.

• git clone [email protected]:michael-cannon/skel.git .skel
• ~/.skel/bin/shellinks

Existing directories and files will be replaced with *.bak as needed. Therefore there's no worry about data loss of your current BASH environment.

Customization

vi key bindings

I'm a long-time developer that likes to keep his hands on the keyboard and never got into IDEs. Instead, I use vi, a lot. Even worse, my command line uses vi key bindings. If you have no idea about them, then comment out the respective vi lines in ~/.inputrc.

Changing ~/.bashrc Defaults

You're welcome to change .bashrc defaults, by adding a custom ~/.bashrc.custom file in your home directory. This way, you can redefine command line variables or add your personal touches as needed.

Additionally, you can setup a .bashrc per computer or server via ~/.bashrc.hostname. If you're not sure what your computers hostname is, run hostname on the command line. Then append that result to ~/.bashrc. for your own custom ~/.bashrc.

For my local box, depending upon the network connection, I have two custom ~/.bashrc files, one called ~/.bashrc.tlf.local and then a symlink of ~/.bashrc.tlf.fritz.box to ~/.bashrc.tlf.local. This way, my local web server information is correct when I reset permissions via fixwebsitepermissions.

There's even support for ~/.bashrc.hostname.username. This is especially useful when your user does sudo or comes in as root via a non-root account.

Changing ~/.bash_profile Defaults

Typically, .bash_profile is called for interactive shell sessions. However, I find that .bash_profile isn't always included when needed. Therefore much of the BASH envrionment settings are handled via .bashrc. In anycase, .bash_profile is also supported.

Like .bashrc, custom .bash_profile is supported via ~/.bash_profile.custom. Additionally ~/.bash_profile.hostname and ~/.bash_profile.hostname.username are supported.

Custom bin

If you want to add your own bin files, I would suggest adding them to ~/.skel/bin/custom. The ~/.bashrc will automatically detect a ~/.skel/bin/custom directory and add to $PATH ahead of ~/.skel/bin.

This means you could write your own script like hackkill, place it in ~/.skel/bin/custom and it'll run instead of ~/.skel/bin/hackkill.

alias Options

I like keeping alias scripts broken out by normal, ssh and conditional groupings. As such, there's…

• .alias for normal things like alias ll="ls -l"
• .alias.ssh for alias alias stypo3vb="ssh [email protected]"
• .alias.conditional for alias's that are created under certain conditions

You can create your custom alias options in a ~/.alias.custom file.

What does abc, 123 or XYZ do?

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