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What's the best way to have a .bashrc that I can use throughout systems? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So, I just found out about a programme called SynthShell which kind of does the work for you and gives you a nice looking shell, the thing is that this also creates some config files and other stuff in my system, instead of just one .bashrc file to edit. What would be the best way to learn to have a nice looking bash where I can just have a backup of it that I can use throughout systems?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

So you can do what you like, but if you are going down the road of shell customization, I recommend you first consider if bash is the shell you want to keep by googling around and reading some articles.

I personally use ZSH (and I cannibalized ohmyzsh for the few configs I wanted instead of taking the whole giant bastard of a thing) but fsh is a fine choice if you don't care about posix (a different discussion). There are some other options to consider as well, but if you're gonna configure, don't do it then do it again in a month with different syntax lol.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, recently after posting this I went down a rabbit hole and found out about zsh and fish and I kind of like fish so I'm thinking about going straight to that, what a hard choice.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

It's a deep rabbit hole lol.