My Dotfiles Setup: A Simple and Powerful Way to Manage Your Shell Over many years of working on the command line, I’ve tried numerous ways to manage my shell environment. I’ve used frameworks like bash-it, and I’ve tried keeping everything in a single .bash_profile. Each approach had its own set of trade-offs. Frameworks were often too bloated for my taste, and a single file became unwieldy. This article describes the simple, modular, and powerful system I’ve developed to manage my shell configuration. It’s a system that has evolved to meet my needs, and I hope it can be a useful starting point for you to build your own perfect shell environment. ...