danielbaird / danielbaird-osx

my macOS setup

OSX config files

My custom config dir from my standard macOS setup. If I had more time this would be better.

Setting up

When you run the git command below, you'll be prompted to install Xcode Command Line Tools, which you should agree to (don't get "full" Xcode unless you want it). If that doesn't work for some reason — e.g. if you're at JCU and their update server doesn't have it — then go to https://developer.apple.com/download/more/, find the lastest version of Command Line Tools, and download and install it.

mkdir -p ~/.config
pushd ~/.config
git clone https://github.com/DanielBaird/danielbaird-osx.git
~/.config/danielbaird-osx/setup/setup.sh
popd

The setup script symlinks these files into place:

file	symlinked to...
bin\bash-profile.sh	~/.bash_profile
ssh\config	~/.ssh/config
config-dir\*	~/.config/*

What do I get

Command line aliases and scripts

run	which does...
bash-color-vars.sh	defines echo-able variables for bash colours
show-bash-color-vars.sh	quick reference to the colour vars defined in bash-color-vars.sh
remove-bom.sh	removes the Byte Order Mark from a file, if it has one
cd..	does a cd .. (up one dir)
ll	does a ls -halPF (detailed ls)
cdf	cds to the dir showing in the front-most Finder window
openports	does a `lsof -i
clean-ds	does a find on .DS_Store files in current dir and below, and deletes them
grepr	does a grep -r (recursive grep)
``

Command line programs

tool	which does...
git	version control
xcode command line tools	compilers and whatnot
brew	package management http://brew.sh
gron	greps JSON https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron
entr	run stuff when the file system changes https://http://entrproject.org/
wget	fetches web pages, like curl but I prefer this
htop	live monitoring of processes, like top but shows CPU cores
watch	repeatedly do something, show the result
graphviz (dot etc)	graph-drawing tool http://www.graphviz.org/
direnv	per-directory env management https://direnv.net/
``

GUI applications

app	which does...
Dropbox	remote file syncing
Google Drive	remote file syncing
Sublime Text	text editor
Keeping You Awake	prevents Mac from sleeping
Itsycal	I used it to replace the clock in the menu bar
Spotify	Streaming music
VLC	Video playback
Slack	Chat rooms for work
Skype	Video conferencing
Spectacle	Key-based window layout (since Window Tidy went commercial)
Firefox	Web browser
Google Chrome	Web browser