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The problem I have with this kind of thing is: I work on hundreds of different vms and containers and they can't all be setup like this AND have root and system accounts be setup like this. So you get too used to it one place and forget its not there when trying to troubleshoot. These days i tend to try and keep my shell simple so my skills transfer easily anywhere.
Same here, I even don't have
ll
in my vocabulary, although it seems to be a default on Debian based systems.You can source a script for this directly from github using curl and proccess substitution in order to temporarily have the config when and where you are without making it the default
I do the same with vim.
Edit: here's the command:
source <(curl -s https://www.raw.githubusercontent.com/sorrybookbroke/bashingmyheadin/master/bashrc
Right? I wonder why this approach isn't more common.
How do you do this with vim, btw? I've looked into it before but haven't found a fully satisfying answer yet.
I use the command
Replace my name and the repos name with yours, and it'll work (that repo doesn't actually exist). It'll only do a single file though.
Ah thanks! I was thinking of something else actually (how to use bashrc aliases when doing :! inside of vim), but it's good to know that there are ways to using a vim config on other machines like that
That's exactly the thing. I limit my configuration to basic environment variables and define sudoers using LDAP (sss). This way I can have some preferred defaults for some tools, but I don't configure many aliases.
If I really need it I package (deb, rpm...) and deploy it either as a profile file or script/program properly.
Using a big well configured bashrc/zshrc/... is more trouble than it's worth for administrators, because it doesn't transfer between environments easily and increases the mental load by a lot. Even though the idea itself is good.
If you're allowed docker in your systems, build a sysadmin container with all your favorite tools. Then just run it locally and remotely with the root directory bound to /mnt or something