Solving the Dotfiles Problem (And Learning Bash)

Published: 31 December 2023
on channel: Bartek Spitza
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I was having some issues syncing my Linux configurations across different machines. I solved it by building an install script and thought it was a good opportunity to explain some of the inner workings of Bash and Linux.

Github: https://github.com/bartekspitza
Dotfiles repo: https://github.com/bartekspitza/dotfiles

This video was made with Motion Canvas, an incredible library by @aarthificial !

Music:
Skye Blue - Yoav Ilan
Ave Maria Gounod - Michele Nobler
Little Things - ANBR
Ballerina - Yehezkel Raz

Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
1:26 Extracting from Bashrc
1:55 Control flow explained
2:53 Install script
3:07 Filename expansion
3:33 Executing & sourcing scripts explained
4:00 Continuing script
4:55 Man pages
6:03 Positional variables
6:45 Symbolic links, filesystem, inodes
7:58 Running the script


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