Posted by: Noah Spurrier
on June 21, 2007 07:12 PM
I have a Makefile that packages all of my beloved dotfiles into a tarball that I can copy to any new system.
I actually have a hook in my .bashrc that will automatically download and open the tarball once a week.
So whenever I login to a system I have not used in a while it gets updated with the latest dotfiles.
Of course, this can lead to surprises if you are not paying attention. Some people don't like things getting
updated behind their backs, but so far this has been working for me without a major meltdown.
<a href="http://www.noah.org/wiki/index.php/Dotfiles">http://www.noah.org/wiki/index.php/Dotfiles</a>
Yours,
Noah
[Modified by: Noah Spurrier on June 21, 2007 07:31 PM]
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Posted by: Noah Spurrier on June 21, 2007 07:12 PMI actually have a hook in my .bashrc that will automatically download and open the tarball once a week.
So whenever I login to a system I have not used in a while it gets updated with the latest dotfiles.
Of course, this can lead to surprises if you are not paying attention. Some people don't like things getting
updated behind their backs, but so far this has been working for me without a major meltdown.
<a href="http://www.noah.org/wiki/index.php/Dotfiles">http://www.noah.org/wiki/index.php/Dotfiles</a>
Yours,
Noah
[Modified by: Noah Spurrier on June 21, 2007 07:31 PM]
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