bashmarks VS dotfiles

Compare bashmarks vs dotfiles and see what are their differences.

bashmarks

Directory bookmarks for the shell (by huyng)

dotfiles

My dot files (by lloeki)
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bashmarks dotfiles
6 3
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0.0 7.1
3 months ago 9 days ago
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BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License Do What The F*ck You Want To Public License
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bashmarks

Posts with mentions or reviews of bashmarks. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-06.

dotfiles

Posts with mentions or reviews of dotfiles. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-25.
  • The bash book to rule them all
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Nov 2023
    > An interactive shell can be a login-shell or a non-login-shell.

    A shell can be login and non-interactive.

    This happens e.g when starting a session from a X session manager. Subsequently a terminal such as Xterm starts non-login interactive sessions.

    Similarly doing ssh starts a non-interactive login shell.

    > However, bash behaves like an interactive non-login shell in this case and reads `bashrc`.

    IIRC nope: distros such as Debian often have bashrc source bash profile (or the other way around, I can't recall) which has me irate to no end+. They even have some TTY dependent stuff in profile which spits out some error in some cases when no TTY is allocated because heh not interactive.

    + I took great length to have my rc and profile properly separated because it's that much faster not to source the unneeded stuff. https://github.com/lloeki/dotfiles

  • A Dotfile History
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Apr 2022
    Got a similar repo: https://github.com/lloeki/dotfiles

    A couple of differences though.

    - there's a setup script to do the basic symlinks, automatically from the files in the "home" subdir by prepending the names with .

    - then for shell stuff everything is sourced from either shell, bash, or zsh subdirs, all in modular files

    - shell dir content is autoloaded based on +x

    - there are polyfills for bash that makes it more zsh-like (stuff like precmd)

    - each shell module tests for tool presence and is a noop or sets up a fallback when the tool is not available, so I can clone this on any system and have it still work, gracefully degrading down to zero deps except the shell itself

    - it also attempts to provide a uniform experience across bash versions and OSes (darwin, linux)

    - prompt is minimal (workdir, dirname only, not the full path), increases with detail progressively and in a hierarchical order (root if root, host if ssh, workdir, vcs branch if in repo, vcs status as symbols if nonempty, venv name if virtualenv, "nix" if in nix shell)

  • How to navigate directories faster with Bash (2015)
    23 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Apr 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing bashmarks and dotfiles you can also consider the following projects:

hstr - bash and zsh shell history suggest box - easily view, navigate, search and manage your command history.

z - z - jump around

ohmyzsh - 🙃 A delightful community-driven (with 2,200+ contributors) framework for managing your zsh configuration. Includes 300+ optional plugins (rails, git, macOS, hub, docker, homebrew, node, php, python, etc), 140+ themes to spice up your morning, and an auto-update tool so that makes it easy to keep up with the latest updates from the community.

fasd - Command-line productivity booster, offers quick access to files and directories, inspired by autojump, z and v.

goat - POSIX-compliant shell movement boosting hack for real ninjas (aka `cd x` and `cd ...`)

fzf - :cherry_blossom: A command-line fuzzy finder

autocomplete - IDE-style autocomplete for your existing terminal & shell

zsh-z - Jump quickly to directories that you have visited "frecently." A native Zsh port of z.sh with added features.

autojump - A cd command that learns - easily navigate directories from the command line

chj-home - home directory

zoxide - A smarter cd command. Supports all major shells.

pushb - like pushd, but for git branches