dotfiles

My personal dotfiles for a modern CLI environment on Linux and macOS.

Prerequisite

• Zsh is installed and set as your login shell.

Install

1. Install Rust.

   We use Cargo (Rust's package manager) to install and manage modern CLI tools. This step installs Rust, then adds cargo-binstall (for pre-compiled binaries) and cargo-update (for convenient binary updates).

   # Install the Rust toolchain
   curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh -s -- -y --no-modify-path --profile=minimal
   
   # Add Cargo to your PATH and reload your shell
   echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.cargo/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.zshrc
   exec zsh
   
   # Install cargo-binstall and cargo-update
   curl -L --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cargo-bins/cargo-binstall/main/install-from-binstall-release.sh | bash
   cargo binstall -y cargo-update

2. Install CLI tools.

   This script installs a curated set of recommended CLI tools. You may also choose to install specific tools manually if you prefer.

   curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/helium777/dotfiles/main/install.sh | bash

3. Bootstrap dotfiles.

   This script clones the dotfiles repository into ~/.local/share/dotfiles and sources the init.zsh file in your .zshrc file.

   curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/helium777/dotfiles/main/bootstrap.sh | bash

4. Restart your shell.

   To finalize the setup, restart your shell.

   exec zsh

Update

To update the dotfiles to the latest version, simply run the bootstrap script again. An update_dotfiles command is also available for convenience after the initial installation.

update_dotfiles

Uninstall

To completely remove the dotfiles setup:

1. Edit ~/.zshrc and remove the following line from the file:

   source ~/.local/share/dotfiles/zsh/init.zsh

2. Delete the dotfiles and Zinit directories:

   rm -rf ~/.local/share/dotfiles
   rm -rf "${ZINIT[HOME_DIR]}"

3. Uninstall Rust:

   rustup self uninstall