Dot files

• Introduction
• bash aliases
• paths
• vim configuration
• postgresql password file
• ssh config file
• git config file

Introduction

Some configuration files that I like to use.

bash aliases

• Debian, place aliases in ~/.bash_aliases, a file loaded by ~/.bashrc.

• Mac, place aliases in ~/.bash_profile.

paths

vim configuration

paths is a file which one can source manually from ~/.bashrc It adds things to path based on the executing environment.

In Vim, run :version for a list of configuration files.

Mac
You should use the ~/.vimrc. There is a global vim configuration file in /usr/share/vim/virc, but files in /usr/share will be overridden by a system upgrade.

Debian
To load the vim configuration file by all users, you could also decide to use the global /etc/vim/vimrc.local (not /etc/vim/vimrc), in case you don’t want to edit a default file. On most distroes /usr/share/vim/vimrc sources vimrc.local.

postgresql password file

From the documentation, https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/libpq-pgpass.html

• The program must be using the C client library libpq to connect to PostgreSQL (the JDBC driver, for example, doesn’t use libpq).
  

• The .pgpass file must be in the home directory of the user that owns the process which uses libpq to connect to PostgreSQL.
  

• You can override the default location by either putting the variable PGPASSFILE in the process' environment or (from v10 on) with the connection parameter passfile.
  

• The .pgpass file must have permissions 0600 or less.
  

ssh config file

Should live in ~/.ssh/config. A convenience file for using ssh.

git config file

The global git config files is openened by "git config --global --edit", it lives in ~/.gitconfig on all platforms. man git config for a comprehensive overview of git configuration properties.