xfiles

Inspired by the repos below, this personalized and self-contained bash environment is intended to make deploying and updating easy across servers to my home directory. I got tired of seeing the word dotfiles so I changed it up a bit XD

Initial Setup & What Will Happen

Clone this repo to /home/username.
Run the bootstrap script xfiles/xbootstrap/config-linux.sh
Follow the prompts keeping in mind the step that creates the symlinks is most important. Now that I think about it that step shouldn't be optional...
Source bash_profile: source ~/.bash_profile

The scripts located in xfiles/xbootstrap do the following:

Determine if you're on CentOS or Ubuntu (ubuntu side of things is a work in progress...)
Optionally install tools and dev utilities using a package manager (see script for details)
Bash-completion installed and sourced in xfiles/config/bash-completion
rbenv installed in xfiles/config/rbenv
nvim installed and initialized in xfiles/nvim
TLDR help installed in xfiles/bin/tldr
PrettyPing installed in xfiles/bin/prettyping
Symlinks created in standard/expected dotfile locations
Tools added to PATH and ready to use

Important Items to Note

Try it out with Vagrant!
- The included vagrantfile will spin up a CentOS 7 VM and copy xfiles to the vagrant home directory.
- vagrant up xfiles
- vagrant ssh xfiles
- Once in, run xfiles/xbootstrap/config-linux.sh
- Then source ~/.bash_profile
~/xfiles/bin - Cool scripts to help make life easier. Also where nvim, prettyping & tldr binaries are installed. A symlink to this directory is created in ~/bin which is added to PATH in bash_profile.
~/xfiles/config - The belly of the beast.
- ~/xfiles/config/dotfiles - Files are symlinked as .files in ~/.
- ~/xfiles/config/shell - Aliases, Exports, helpful functions and goodies of all kind are sourced in ~/.bash_profile.
~/xfiles/nvim - Location of nvim config file and location of nvim installation after bootstrap scripts are executed.
~/xfiles/scripting - A nice bash script template with library courtesy of natelandau/dotfiles.
~/xfiles/xbootstrap - Installs and configures your shell. Look at config-linux.sh to see whats under the hood.

NeoVim (nvim)

The stable release of NeoVim is downloaded from github and added to ~/xfiles/nvim/.

The first time you run nvim after bootstrapping, you will see a list of plugins being installed. Press q to exit this window once its done.

To customize what plugins (and anything nvim related) take a look at ~/xfiles/nvim/init.vim

NOTE To get nvim initialized properly, the following environment variables have to be sourced (this is done in ~/xfiles/config/shell/bashOptions.bash). The default value is normally your home directory, any packages installed after making this change could add a .directory to ~/xfiles.

export XDG_CONFIG_HOME="${HOME}/xfiles"
export XDG_DATA_HOME="${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}"

Bash-Completion

Version 2.10 of bash-completion is taken from github and installed to ~/xfiles/config/bash-completion. The default version of bash-completion varies by distribution and is several versions behind on CentOS 7.

This will not affect the system's default version (if installed), it is all contained in ~/xfiles/config/bash-completion and is sourced via ~/xfiles/config/shell/bashCompletion.sh

rbenv

Easily install and manage ruby + gems in ~/xfiles/config/rbenv (see Gemfile and gemrc in config/dotfiles)

 $> rbenv install
 $> gem install bundler
 $> bundle install
 $> source ~/.bashrc    # ll alias uses colorls gem

TLDR

Instead of looking through man pages just type help <command>

PrettyPing

A cool ping wrapper that looks nice.

lpf23 / xfiles