Re: Dot files, get them out of the way
On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 12:42:55PM +0200, Wilko Fokken wrote:
> Moin mitnanner,
>
> As a (private) text prone Debian user, I like having my dot files
> out of the way and not stumbling between my working files.
>
> On the other hand, I dislike hiding them by file managers,
> because I want to discover them early at possibly wrong places.
>
> So, by fumbling and messing with some shell scripts,
> I managed to get my dot files:
>
> into "/root" for owner "root"
> and
> into "$HOME/.rc" for ordinary users.
>
>
> My question:
>
> Is there a better way to accomplish this
> by a direct changing of the system defaults?
>
>
> Thanks for your sugestions
>
> Wilko
You could put the .rc directory in /etc/skel, so that when you add a new
user that directory is automatically made within the user's $HOME.
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