These are my .dotfiles. There are many like them, but these ones are mine. My .dotfiles are my best friends. They are my life. I must master them as I must master my life. My .dotfiles, without me, are useless. Without my .dotfiles, I am useless. I must execute my .dotfiles true. I must use them straighter than my enemy who is trying to hack me. I must hack him before he hacks me ... and I will ...

These are the very first files I drop onto any machine I set up — bare metal or virtual, it doesn’t matter. Why? Because they guarantee my environment feels just right, no matter where I am. Inside you’ll find slick aliases, custom functions, completions, and plenty more.

Keeping everything running smooth is a lightweight command-line utility written in Python. It takes inspiration from the big-name environment managers, but skips the bloat (and yes, you even get to pick your own prompt style!).

Clone this repo to a directory anywhere under your user's home directory.

git clone https://github.com/ragdata/.dotfiles.git

(This only needs to be done once - once complete you can skip this step and go straight to step 3. And yes, I'm sorry - you need to create the virtual environment exactly as shown because it is referenced in the makefile)

cd ~
python3 -m venv ~/.venv/dotenv

source ~/.venv/dotenv/bin/activate

Once .dotfiles is installed, an alias will automatically load allowing you to activate the virtual environment using the following command:

dotenv

To deactivate the virtual environment, use the deactivate command as usual.

cd .dotfiles
make install
source ~/.bashrc

And that's it, you're ready to go!

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While I always good security practices, 100% security can never be guaranteed in any software package. Dotfiles is provided AS IS, and without warranty. You can find more details in the LICENSE file included with this repository.

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