bash-it - a community Bash framework

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Bash-it is a collection of community Bash commands and scripts. (And a shameless ripoff of ​oh-my-zsh 😃)

Includes autocompletion, themes, aliases, custom functions, a few stolen pieces from Steve Losh, and more.

Bash-it provides a solid framework for using, developing and maintaining shell scripts and custom commands for your daily work. If you're using the Bourne Again Shell (Bash) on a regular basis and have been looking for an easy way on how to keep all of these nice little scripts and aliases under control, then Bash-it is for you! Stop polluting your ~/bin directory and your .bashrc file, fork/clone Bash-it and start hacking away.

​https://github.com/Bash-it/bash-it

[raimue (Rainer Müller)]

As far as I understand it, this is supposed to replace .bash_profile and .bashrc in your home directory. ​According to the README, users are supposed to add their custom aliases/completions/etc. to the git repository it was installed from. Wouldn't keeping this at a central place work against customization? What would be the purpose of this port?

Also it seems like bash-it has an integrated updater, so that would need to be patched out. Furthermore, the bash-it upstream project has 0 releases. Which version should the port provide? It might help to look into other distributions to see how they handle bash-it in their packaging as a starting point.

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You can install it with the option --no-modify-config and work your way from there. As for the purpose, the subject states it: a community bash framework. Re the updater, I haven't used it. Re versioning, there seems to be none. And I couldn't find others distributions for it. That said, it has a large and interesting code base.