Some good dotfiles for work at Airbnb

• Your prompt is your ldap, and it changes colors depending on whether you're typing commands locally or on a remote Linux box. For this to work you need to clone and install this repo locally and on boxes that you tend to ssh into a lot.

• All bash history is saved to a file called ~/.bash_eternal_history. Helpful when trying to find commands you rarely use.

• When using ssh with a box that connects to the Silver/Gold cluster, an environment variable indicating silver or gold is passed to your prompt so you won't forget what cluster you're interacting with.

• Any specific Airbnb environment variables, like AFDEV* ones, can be kept out of version control in a file in your home directory called .airbnb_vars and will be sourced when your .bashrc is sourced.

• When in a git repository, your prompt shows the branch you're on.

• Some nice features if you use screen.

  • screen -t my_session will give you a nice screen session with three premade tabs. One for bash, one for hive and one for presto

There's a shell script that will apply symlinks to your home directory and move any existing files with the same name to backup (with a ~). Run this command from your home directory.

sh path/to/dotfiles/apply_symlinks.sh

Add any Airbnb specific environment vars to ~/.airbnb_vars (like AFDEV ones).