From 06c994ece45698eff55aad3dfec35c29f201358c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Robert <Robert@TryingToScale.com>
Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2025 22:20:34 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] stowing global

---
 .aliases.d/tar.sh                             |  5 +++-
 .aliases.d/z_mail_checker.sh                  |  2 +-
 README.md                                     | 25 ++++++++++++++++---
 scripts/helper/.git_bash_prompt               |  3 +--
 scripts/helper/scan_aliases.sh                |  4 +--
 scripts/sshto/scripts/compile_bash_aliases.sh |  2 +-
 scripts/sshto/scripts/compile_sshto.sh        |  2 +-
 7 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.aliases.d/tar.sh b/.aliases.d/tar.sh
index 004cc21..d243b21 100644
--- a/.aliases.d/tar.sh
+++ b/.aliases.d/tar.sh
@@ -82,9 +82,11 @@ bk() {
   tar --exclude-vcs --exclude-from="$HOME/.data/user_def_excludes.ini" -czf "$myoutfile" "${exclude_arg[@]}" "$@"
 }
 
+alias qcompress='zstd -19 -T0'
+
 function extract {
  if [ -z "$1" ]; then
-    echo "Usage: extract <path/file_name>.<deb|rpm|zip|rar|bz2|gz|tar|tbz2|tgz|Z|7z|xz|ex|tar.bz2|tar.gz|tar.xz>"
+    echo "Usage: extract <path/file_name>.<deb|rpm|zip|zst|rar|bz2|gz|tar|tbz2|tgz|Z|7z|xz|ex|tar.bz2|tar.gz|tar.xz>"
     return 0
  fi
 
@@ -115,6 +117,7 @@ function extract {
           *.tbz2)      nice -n 17 tar xvjf "$n" ;;
           *.tgz)       nice -n 17 tar xvzf "$n" ;;
           *.zip)       nice -n 17 unzip "$n" ;;
+          *.zst)       nice -n 17 unzstd "$n" ;;
           *.Z)         nice -n 17 uncompress "$n" ;;
           *.7z)        nice -n 17 7z x "$n" ;;
           *.xz)        nice -n 17 unxz "$n" ;;
diff --git a/.aliases.d/z_mail_checker.sh b/.aliases.d/z_mail_checker.sh
index 8da6cea..fc63b10 100644
--- a/.aliases.d/z_mail_checker.sh
+++ b/.aliases.d/z_mail_checker.sh
@@ -1 +1 @@
-~/dotfiles/scripts/helper/check_mail.sh
+~/scripts/helper/check_mail.sh
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 6d681e4..4dd40f9 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # my dotfiles
 
-## Installing stow:
+## Installing the "stow" program:
 # On Debian/Ubuntu
 sudo apt install stow
 
@@ -10,8 +10,25 @@ sudo dnf install stow
 # On Arch Linux
 sudo pacman -S stow
 
-# Setup symlinks to home folder
+## Installing dotfiles
 ```
-$ cd ~/dotfiles
-$ stow .
+# Create system wide stow directory
+$ sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/stow
+
+# Pull Git Repo
+$ mkdir ~/stow
+$ cd ~/stow
+$ git clone https://git.mysnippetsofcode.com/bobs/dotfiles.git
+
+# Symlink your dot files to make updates easy
+$ sudo ln -s ~/stow/dotfiles /usr/local/stow/dotfiles
+
+# Stow for your user and root accounts
+# Dry Run (verbose) on Home folder
+$ sudo stow -d /usr/local/stow -nv -t ~ dotfiles
+# Do it for real!
+$ sudo stow -d /usr/local/stow -t ~ dotfiles
+
+# For root user, if desired!
+$ sudo stow -d /usr/local/stow -t /root dotfiles
 ```
diff --git a/scripts/helper/.git_bash_prompt b/scripts/helper/.git_bash_prompt
index 5796fea..0c89d0e 100644
--- a/scripts/helper/.git_bash_prompt
+++ b/scripts/helper/.git_bash_prompt
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-PROFILE_PATH=/opt/profiles
 #   Set the bash prompt according to:
 #    * the branch/status of the current git repository
 #    * the return value of the previous command
@@ -49,7 +48,7 @@ LIGHT_GREEN="\[\033[1;32m\]"
  COLOR_NONE="\[\e[0m\]"
  COLOR_DEFAULT="\[\e[39m\]"
 
-[ -f ~/dotfiles/scripts/helper/.kube-ps1 ] && source ~/dotfiles/scripts/helper/.kube-ps1
+[ -f ~/scripts/helper/.kube-ps1 ] && source ~/scripts/helper/.kube-ps1
 
 function is_normal_theme() {
     # sudo apt-get install fonts-powerline
diff --git a/scripts/helper/scan_aliases.sh b/scripts/helper/scan_aliases.sh
index 6abd4d5..38883c2 100755
--- a/scripts/helper/scan_aliases.sh
+++ b/scripts/helper/scan_aliases.sh
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
-SANE_CHECKER=~/.data/.sane_checker.sum
-SANE_CERTS=~/.data/.sane_certs.sum
+SANE_CHECKER=~/.data/.sane_checker_${USER}.sum
+SANE_CERTS=~/.data/.sane_certs_${USER}.sum
 export SHA_SUM_APP=/usr/bin/sha256sum
 error_status=$(mktemp)
 
diff --git a/scripts/sshto/scripts/compile_bash_aliases.sh b/scripts/sshto/scripts/compile_bash_aliases.sh
index a5eb960..e2d7fd3 100755
--- a/scripts/sshto/scripts/compile_bash_aliases.sh
+++ b/scripts/sshto/scripts/compile_bash_aliases.sh
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
 if [ -z "$_PROFILES_PATH" ]; then
-   _PROFILES_PATHA=~/dotfiles/
+   _PROFILES_PATHA=~/stow/dotfiles/
 else
    _PROFILES_PATHA=${_PROFILES_PATH}
 fi
diff --git a/scripts/sshto/scripts/compile_sshto.sh b/scripts/sshto/scripts/compile_sshto.sh
index 6dd741a..07182dd 100755
--- a/scripts/sshto/scripts/compile_sshto.sh
+++ b/scripts/sshto/scripts/compile_sshto.sh
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
 if [ -z "$_PROFILES_PATH" ]; then
-   _MAIN_PATHCC=~/dotfiles/
+   _MAIN_PATHCC=~/stow/dotfiles/
 else
    _MAIN_PATHCC=${_PROFILES_PATH}
 fi