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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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System basics: The Linux file system6m 35s
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System basics: The command line5m 23s
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System basics: Keyboard shortcuts1m 40s
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System basics: sudo access and root4m 57s
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System basics: Explore a system4m 38s
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System basics: Exploring Bash7m
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System basics: Bash scripting basics4m 59s
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System basics: The Bash prompt6m 2s
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System basics: Bash output redirection4m 57s
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Bash expansions and substitutions4m 23s
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Bash aliases and functions4m 7s
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Bash operators6m 55s
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Logs5m 4s
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Grub3m 19s
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SysV init4m 43s
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Systemd5m 29s
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Cron8m 7s
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Understanding chroot3m 16s
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System basics: User and group management8m 39s
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System basics: Service management3m 44s
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Backing up data with rsync5m 35s
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Splitting and combining files3m 3s
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Environment configuration files2m 43s
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Working with dotfiles1m 43s
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Exploring the PATH variable3m 51s
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Browsing with the directory stack3m 19s
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Finding or locating files3m 52s
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Working with swap4m 29s
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Read and write caches3m 5s
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Terminals, consoles, and TTYs4m 27s
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Exploring journalctl5m 2s
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