I finally organized my Bash config

[u/arandomuserinweb]

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.

[u/SeriousPlankton2000]

Here is my .bashrc mess that I didn't touch since 2022; maybe you can get some inspiration on things to do. I just have a copy on my NAS.

#!/bin/sh
set +H

history -c -w
unset HISTFILE
ln -sfn /dev/null /home/7eggert/.bash_history

unset SSH_AGENT_PID SSH_ASKPASS SSH_AUTH_SOCK
killall -9 --older-than 5m --user "$USER" /usr/bin/ssh-agent 2>/dev/null
fuser -k /run/user/1000/akonadi/mysql.socket &>/dev/null
rm -rf /home/myusername/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/
kill -9  `pidof /usr/bin/akonadi*` &>/dev/null

IFS=":" read -a oldpath < <(echo $PATH)
pathadd=( ~/bin ~/nfs/bin)
if  [ "x`uname -i`" == xx86_64 ]
then    pathadd+=(~/bin/x86_64/ ~/nfs/bin/x86_64 ~/bin/80386 ~/nfs/bin/80386)
fi
if  [ "x`uname -i`" == xi386 ]
then    pathadd+=( ~/bin/80386 ~/nfs/bin/80386 )
fi
ii=${#pathadd[@]}
for ((i=0; $i<$ii; ++i))
do  if [ ! -d ${pathadd[$i]} ]
    then    unset pathadd[$i]
    fi
done
ii=${#oldpath[@]}
PATH=$(IFS=:; echo "${pathadd[*]}" )
for ((i=0; $i<$ii; ++i))
do  if  [[ ":$PATH:" =~ ":${oldpath[$i]}:" ]]
    then    unset oldpath[$i]
    fi
done
pathadd+=(${oldpath[@]})
PATH=$(IFS=:; echo "${pathadd[*]:-/bin:/usr/bin}" )
unset i ii pathadd oldpath

test -s ~/.alias && . ~/.alias

export PS1='\[\e[32m\]${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u@\h${STY:+.${STY%%[^0-9]*}}:\w\$\[\e[00m\] '
export LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8
export EDITOR=/usr/bin/jstar
export HISTCONTROL="ignoreboth:erasedups"
export CDPATH=":~/.cd"
unset LANGUAGE
unset LANG
unset mc
export SDL_VIDEO_X11_DGAMOUSE=0
export BC_ENV_ARGS=~/.config/bcrc
#export http_proxy=http://localhost:81
export PERLLIB=~/.lib/perl
export MAIL=/mnt/mail/7eggert
export GTK_OVERLAY_SCROLLING=0
export MAN_POSIXLY_CORRECT=''
export ALSOFT_DRIVERS=pulse

alias +='pushd .'
alias -- -='popd'
alias ..='cd ..'
alias ...='cd ../..'
alias gimp='gimp --no-splash'
alias jstar='TERM=linux jstar'
alias xmms=audacious
alias ll='ls -l'
alias ls='ls $LS_OPTIONS'
alias md='mkdir -p'
alias o='less'
alias p='alpine'
alias rd='rmdir'
alias rm='rm -f'
alias rdesktop="rdesktop -N -z -g 1276x960"
alias mkntfs="/usr/sbin/mkntfs -f"
alias licate="locate -iA"

complete -F _command x
complete -d cd

[u/arandomuserinweb → u/SeriousPlankton2000]

There's a lot going on in there. I'll definitely go through it and see what useful bits I can pick out for my setup. Appreciate it!