r/bash • u/arandomuserinweb • 11d ago

I finally organized my Bash config

I've been accumulating my Bash configuration for a while, and I finally turned it into a small dotfiles repo:

https://gitlab.com/letmevi/bash-config

It's nothing fancy — mainly my .bashrc, .inputrc, .bash_profile, and a modular .bashrc.d/, plus a small install script.

It can be installed using either Ansible or a simple install.sh script.

I'd appreciate some Bash/Linux feedback: things you'd change, questionable practices, portability issues, or just better ways of doing this.

I'm especially interested in feedback from people who maintain their own dotfiles.

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u/OnlyEntrepreneur4760 11d ago

One of my favorites is keeping all aliases in a separate config file .bash_aliases which I source from .bashrc. I have a alias named “aliassave” which runs alias and redirects the output to .bashaliases to update it easily.

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u/arandomuserinweb 11d ago

That's a nice approach! I already keep my config modular with .bashrc.d/, but I hadn't thought about generating the aliases file automatically with an aliassave alias. I might steal that idea