Setting up the terminal on a computer, including all the configuration, app, and plugin installation, takes a lot of work and effort. Moreover, especially when working on multiple computers, the synchronization of all these setting become an issue.
Project dotfiles provides a framework to do all the setups with a bootstrap
script scripts/bootstrap.zsh.
- macOS or Ubuntu
- zsh
- git
Install dotfiles by running the curl or wget command in the terminal.
| Method | Command |
|---|---|
| curl | sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tainvecs/dotfiles/main/scripts/install.zsh)" |
| wget | sh -c "$(wget -O- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tainvecs/dotfiles/main/scripts/install.zsh)" |
In addition, the following environment variables are configurable for the dotfiles installation scripts.
| Environment Variable | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
| DOTFILES_ROOT_DIR | $HOME/dotfiles |
The customized root folder for dotfiles repo. |
| DOTFILES_APPLY_LOCAL_CONFIG_TEMPLATES | '' |
Set to true to apply template configs in local/config_template. |
To run the installation script with these variables, try the following commands.
| Method | Command |
|---|---|
| curl | env DOTFILES_ROOT_DIR=/customized_path/dotfiles DOTFILES_APPLY_LOCAL_CONFIG_TEMPLATES=true sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tainvecs/dotfiles/main/scripts/install.zsh)" |
| wget | env DOTFILES_ROOT_DIR=/customized_path/dotfiles DOTFILES_APPLY_LOCAL_CONFIG_TEMPLATES=true sh -c "$(wget -O- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tainvecs/dotfiles/main/scripts/install.zsh)" |
To test this package and tune your local config, pull the docker image and run it locally.
docker pull ghcr.io/tainvecs/dotfiles:latest
docker run --rm -it ghcr.io/tainvecs/dotfiles:latestAlternatively, you can also build the image locally.
cd /customized_path/dotfiles && sh ./deployment/docker_build_local.shSimply remove the following command from your ~/.zshenv file.
source /customized_path/dotfiles/config/zsh/.zshenvIn addition, you can purge dotfiles from your system by removing the dotfiles repo.
rm -r /customized_path/dotfiles