MVP of how to add custom scripts to the amnesia terminal on TailsOS

[fititnt]

Document (or maybe do some shell scripting) of an minimum viable product (MVP) of how do deploy scripts that are acessible by the user on TailsOS.

As reference, the /home/amnesia/.profile alredy seems to load to the path the /home/amnesia/bin if already was created when starting a new shell

amnesia@amnesia:~$ cat .profile

# ~/.profile: executed by the command interpreter for login shells.
# This file is not read by bash(1), if ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bash_login
# exists.
# see /usr/share/doc/bash/examples/startup-files for examples.
# the files are located in the bash-doc package.

# the default umask is set in /etc/profile; for setting the umask
# for ssh logins, install and configure the libpam-umask package.
umask 077

# if running bash
if [ -n "$BASH_VERSION" ]; then
    # include .bashrc if it exists
    if [ -f "$HOME/.bashrc" ]; then
	. "$HOME/.bashrc"
    fi
fi

# set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists
if [ -d "$HOME/bin" ] ; then
    PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH"
fi

Edit: missed last line of code on sample code. Added.

[fititnt]

We're already doing this. Maybe we could just document better (than people look at the dotfiles, in special the dotfiles/example/rocha/.bash_profile if they want know about startup scripts) or we assume it's done.

[fititnt]

Oh f**k me. Did not work as expected.

I think instead of do the rigth way (read the documentation and undestand how it is suposed to work) I will just reinvent the wheel!
Anyway, either for my future self (or anyone trying to do the less wrong way) this was the current version of .bash_profile.

The main error I found was, when restarting the Tails, neither /home/amnesia/Persistent/software/bin or /home/amnesia/Persistent/bin was added to the path (maybe .bash_profile is ignored.. for every new terminal).

https://github.com/fititnt/TailsOS-for-non-whistleblowers/blob/ef1777ee53e65f108c8b4b42059a3f865441cf14/dotfiles/example/rocha/.bash_profile

# ~/.profile: executed by the command interpreter for login shells.
# This file is not read by bash(1), if ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bash_login
# exists.
# see /usr/share/doc/bash/examples/startup-files for examples.
# the files are located in the bash-doc package.

# the default umask is set in /etc/profile; for setting the umask
# for ssh logins, install and configure the libpam-umask package.
umask 077

# if running bash
if [ -n "$BASH_VERSION" ]; then
    # include .bashrc if it exists
    if [ -f "$HOME/.bashrc" ]; then
	. "$HOME/.bashrc"
    fi
fi

# set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists
if [ -d "$HOME/bin" ] ; then
    PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH"
fi

#### Custom additions from original ~/.profile, START __________________________

#### /home/amnesia/Persistent/software/bin .....................................
# @see docs/portable-software.sh
# If this path exists, executable binaries here will have priority over
# /home/amnesia/bin.
if [ -d "/home/amnesia/Persistent/software/bin" ] ; then
    PATH="/home/amnesia/Persistent/software/bin:$PATH"
fi

#### /home/amnesia/Persistent/bin ..............................................
# @see docs/portable-software.sh
# If this path exists, executable binaries here will have priority over
# /home/amnesia/Persistent/software/bin and /home/amnesia/bin.
if [ -d "/home/amnesia/Persistent/bin" ] ; then
    PATH="/home/amnesia/Persistent/bin:$PATH"
fi

#### Startup scripts ...........................................................
# TODO: this feature was not fully tested yet. (fititnt, 2020-10-24 18:42 UTC)
#
# Note: this code exists both on the my-git-repo/bin/startup-scripts.sh and
#       my-git-repo/dotfiles/example/rocha/.bash_profile

# If ~/bin/startup-scripts/ (or ~/bin/startup-scripts-examples/) exists, we
# execute every .sh file there
if [ -d "$HOME/bin/startup-scripts" ];
then
    run-parts --regex '.*sh$' "$HOME/bin/startup-scripts/"
elif [ -d "$HOME/bin/startup-scripts-examples" ];
then
    run-parts --regex '.*sh$' "$HOME/bin/startup-scripts-examples/"
fi

#### Custom additions from original ~/.profile, END ____________________________

On the docs/zzz-undocumented.sh I was using just

rm -r ~/bin
ln -s /home/amnesia/Persistent/git/fititnt/TailsOS-for-non-whistleblowers/bin ~/bin

So maybe lets call this a feature.

[fititnt]

Ok, I just created a release here https://github.com/fititnt/TailsOS-for-non-whistleblowers/releases/tag/v1.0. So I will do some refactoring.

I may not do new releases on future, but this release is just to I care less of more severe refactoring.

[fititnt]

Things are improving

• tails-do-it : add our custom place to store files
• tails-ui-options-import: import terminal colors, gedit themes, etc
• tails-code: load one portable vscode on disk to the ram and executes