What is this?

This repository has my rc-files other things that I want to have everywhere.

Where does the name “shell-things” come from? / History

In the beginning this repository was only GitHub gist and contained only two files, bashrc.

Then I moved to zsh and abandoned .bashrc.

Some time after that I got need for having both files so I merged them into shell-things. At some point there came many other files from which some aren’t related to shells, but I don’t want to rename it.

And why would I rename this? shell-things name is more unique than dotfiles and this has been shell-things for years.

How do I use this?

How you should use this.

The best way to use files things like this is to read them and copy-paste the things that look useful to you to your own files.

How you will most likely use this.

If you are lazy or want to copy me as much as possible, you will install git, curl and wget if you don’t have them already and run

wget https://mkaysi.github.io/shell-things/shell-things.bash
source shell-things.bash
shell-things
source ~/.$(echo $SHELL|cut -d/ -f3)rc

To upgrade, simply run shell-things.

How I use this.

As I know everything that is in this repository, I simply do the above.

I know everything that is in this file and how it affects my environment and I want it, so I can do that.