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Working with dotfiles

Working with dotfiles - Linux Tutorial

From the course: Linux Tips

Working with dotfiles

- [Instructor] As you customize your Linux system, you'll probably end up tweaking settings for command line tools and for the shell. These changes are made in configuration files, which are stored inside your user home directory, often with names like .profile, .vimrc or .nanorc. There are many programs that store configurations like this. There are also directories that start with a dot, like .config, which is where many apps store configuration information, and .ssh, which is where SSH keys are kept. Taken as a group, these files and directories are referred to as dot files, because their names start with a dot, or period, and together, they represent customizations done by the user to their environment. By convention, files and directories starting with a dot are hidden from list views of files, but we can see them with the -a option for LS, and graphical file browsers can be set to show them, too. Being small text files, these…

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