base-files revisited

[Brian Inglis]

On 2019-04-06 08:08, John Morrison wrote:
> I've been asked at work to get the standard base-files extended with
> specifics for the company I work for and wondered if this would be a good
> time to revisit how the .bashrc file in particular is put together.
> 
> What I was considering would be introducing a ~/.bashrc.d/ folder and
> splitting the existing ~/.bashrc file into its component parts;
> 
> * alias.bashrc
> * completion.bashrc
> * functions.bashrc
> * history.bashrc
> * shell.bashrc
> * umask.bashrc
> 
> and changing .bashrc to source all the *.bashrc files.
> 
> This would allow easier extension of the bashrc with, in my case, company
> specific options (proxies, common aliases etc).
> 
> I was also thinking of taking some more of the sample from
> https://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/sample-bashrc.html, for example the
> colours and some more of the aliases and adding them into the existing sets.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> I think Achim Gratz took over the base-files from me. Achim, are you still
> around? Open for a discussion?
> 
> Kind regards

You might want to consider using standard /etc/profile.d/ scripts named for, and
conditional on, your company domain, Cygwin, shell, and components, depending on
how you want to do things, possibly installed from /etc/defaults/etc/profile.d/.

Or you could put a <domain>.sh driver script in /etc/profile.d/, and source
scripts from /usr/local/{bin,lib,share}/<domain>/.

You could use the Xwin directories ~/.local/ and ~/.config/ if you want user
specific customization, perhaps setup in /etc/defaults/etc/skel and installed by
a custom postinstall script base-files-<domain>.sh.

Or some combo of those and other standard approaches to local customization,
like .${OSTYPE}_profile, .${OSTYPE}rc, .${HOSTNAME}_profile, .${HOSTNAME}rc, etc.

Have a look at the various systems and shells and their initialization and
customization approaches, and adapt some existing infrastructure, rather than
stuffing something unique somewhere unexpected.

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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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