Frequently Asked Questions

Command Not Found

$ fresh
bash: fresh: command not found
# OR

$ fresh
zsh: command not found: fresh

Solution

Bash

~/bin/fresh freshshell/fresh contrib/source-build.sh --file='~/.bashrc'

Zsh

~/bin/fresh freshshell/fresh contrib/source-build.sh --file='~/.zshrc'

Writeable Files

Files generated by fresh are read-only to prevent accidental loss of changes.

Applications such Emacs and Irssi which write to their config files are unable to write to the read-only files generated by fresh. You can symlink these files directly out of your dotfiles in your freshrc:

# freshrc:
ln -sf ~/.dotfiles/emacs ~/.emacs

Can I conditionally include based on OS or host?

Yes. As fresh is written in shell-script, we can add conditionals using shell-script. See Scripting your freshrc file for details.