[COFF] What is your prompt?

[Theodore Ts'o]

On Sun, Dec 26, 2021 at 12:43:37AM +0100, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
> I usually do "scp .* HOST:" whenever i get a HOST account, and
> forget about it thereafter.

I keep a private git repo on one of my machines, so when I get a HOST
account, I run a comand like this:

% git clone ssh://tytso@example.com/home/tytso/repos/dotfiles .
% cd dotfiles
% make

This installs a bunch of symlinks from
dotfiles/{.bashrc,.profile,.muttrc}, etc. to $HOME/.

That way, I can run "git pull" to update my dotfiles on one particular
machine, and if I make local changes, I'll do a "git push" to send
them back to my dotfiles repo.

The Makefile I have in my top-level repo some folks might find
interesting:

.PHONY: all bin dotfiles

all: dotfiles

DIRS= .gnupg .mutt .config/gce-xfstests .config/gcloud/configurations bin em
#DBG= echo

dotfiles:
	for file in $(shell find $(CURDIR) -maxdepth 1 -type f -name ".*" \
	    -not -name ".*~" -not -name ".gitignore" -print); do \
		f=$$(basename $$file); \
		if test -f $(HOME)/$$f -a ! -h $(HOME)/$$f ; then \
			mkdir -p backup ; \
			mv $(HOME)/$$f backup ; \
		fi ; \
		$(DBG) ln -sfn $$file $(HOME)/$$f; \
	done
	for dir in $(DIRS) ; do \
	    $(DBG) mkdir -p $(HOME)/$$dir ; \
	    for file in $$(find $$(pwd)/$$dir -maxdepth 1 -type f \
		-not -name "*~" -print); do \
		f=$$(basename $$file); \
		if test -f $(HOME)/$$dir/$$f -a ! -h $(HOME)/$$dir/$$f ; then \
			mkdir -p backup/$$dir ; \
			mv $(HOME)/$$dir/$$f backup/$$dir ; \
		fi ; \
		$(DBG) ln -sfn $$file $(HOME)/$$dir/$$f; \
	    done; \
	done
	if test -d backup ; then find backup -type f -print ; fi

Cheers,

						- Ted