Your Dotfiles: A Setup You Can Carry

Dotfiles are the hidden settings files that make a shell yours; keep your own in a ~/dotfiles folder, link each one into place with ln -s, and keep the folder in Git if you use it, and a new computer is set up like your old one in a minute.

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Cheat sheet for the lesson Your Dotfiles: A Setup You Can Carry: Dotfiles are the hidden settings files that make a shell yours; keep your own in a ~/dotfiles folder, link each one into place with ln -s, and keep the folder in Git if you use it, and a new computer is set up like your old one in a…
Category
Bash
Level
Journeyman
Tags
bashrc-and-profile, dotfiles, hidden-file, linux, symbolic-link, unix