Bashophilia

A bookmark manager for your cli, and more

Bashophilia is a modular framework for configuring your CLI experience in bash.

It provides powerful yet simple bookmark functionality, dynamic and configurable prompt, title setting of your X terminal, and other sweet treats like information about your git repository.

Each feature is made available via a module which you can disable/enable by the flick of a switch.

Requirements

This was written for the bourne-again shell (bash), however it can easily be adapted to zsh (send me a pull request!).

Installation

mkdir -p ~/.config
cd ~/.config
git clone https://github.com/nima/bashophilia.git

And then just add the following line to your ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_profile:

source ~/.config/bashophilia/bashophile.sh

Configuration

You don't need to do any configuration, as bashophilia will work out of the box, however if you later decide to change some settings, or write your own modules, simply drop in a `~/.boprc':

cp share/dot.boprc ~/.boprc

In there, you can configure the delimiter for the prompt tokens (some modules provide functionality for amending the shell prompt):

#. Pick your delimiter of choice
BOP_DELIM=:

You can also configure which modules are active:

#. Enable the modules of your choice
declare -a BOP_MODULES=(
    spacer
    cdbm
    git
    timer
)

At the time of this writing, bashophile supports 4 modules, and these will be covered nexd.

Features

Spacer

Throw in a line accross the terminal with <ALT>+<Left> and <ALT>+<Right>. The idea was taken directly from https://github.com/LuRsT/hr.

CDBM - The Change-Directory Bookmark Manager

Ever want to book mark a directory you're in at the cli? specially those really really long and difficult-to-remember ones? How about even the short ones that you use really really often?

Well I did, and so here it is - a short bash script to source in your ~/.bashrc and enjoy 26 shortcuts:

Save the current pwd to a bookmark with <ALT>+<SHIFT>+[a-z]
Load it up with <ALT>+[a-z]

#. Let's try it out:
/var/tmp$ source dot.bash_profile_eg
/var/tmp$ 

#. Create a bookmark:
/var/tmp$ <ALT>+<SHIFT>+t
T$ 

#. Let's now do some work there first:
T$ mkdir -p www/yyy
T$ cd www/yyy
T:/www/yyy$

#. And now save another bookmark:
T:/www/yyy$ <ALT>+<SHIFT>+y
Y$ 

#. Now let's move back to `/var/tmp' or `T':
Y$ <ALT>+t
T$ 

#. ...and back to `Y':
T$ <ALT>+y
Y$ 

#. ...and back to `t' again, this time via the *last* buffer:
Y$ <ALT>+<TAB>
T$ <ALT>+<TAB>
Y$ <ALT>+<TAB>
T$ <ALT>+<TAB>
Y$ 

#. Finally, to delete a book mark, save it again at the path you saved it at
Y$ <ALT>+<SHIFT>+y
/var/tmp/www/yyy$

Git

This module modifies the prompt if you happen to cd into a git repository. It was forked from https://github.com/magicmonty/bash-git-prompt, and amended to suit.

Timer

This module modifies the prompt with the number of seconds elapsed on each command executed.

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