Dotfiles

For the last few years I have been grabbing some we documented dotfiles from GitHub↗ but most of them have either ended up reconfigured my Mac to the point of it being unrecognisable or they have just been a collection of useful aliases. The I came across Bashstrap↗, it was close enough to what I wanted so I forked it↗ ….

You can install them using the following commands;

git clone git@github.com:russmckendrick/dotfiles.git ~/.dotfiles
sudo easy_install Pygments
brew install tree
mv ~/.bash_profile ~/.dotfiles/backups/
mv ~/.bashrc ~/.dotfiles/backups/
mv ~/.gitconfig ~/.dotfiles/backups/
ln -s ~/.dotfiles/.bash_profile ~/.bash_profile
ln -s ~/.dotfiles/.bashrc ~/.bashrc
ln -s ~/.dotfiles/.gitconfig ~/.gitconfig
ln -s ~/.dotfiles/.hushlogin ~/.hushlogin
ln -s ~/.dotfiles/z.sh ~/.z.sh

Once installed you can do stuff like;

• s . or s filename.txt will open your current directory or a file in Sublime Text 2↗
• m README.md will open the specified file in Marked 2↗
• Jump directories rapidly, without having to set aliases using Z↗
• Syntax highlighted ‘cat’

amongst other things;

Dotfiles Example↗