As someone who earns part of my living by trying out Linux distros, I reinstall a LOT. Even my favorites rarely last longer than a few months before they’re wiped away to make room for something new. Invariably, one of the very first things I do after any installation is to tweak my shell to include a few options, aliases, and of course my preferred prompt. After rebuilding my .bashrc file dozens of times, I began to think there had to be a better way. I began looking for a place online to store my .bashrc file, with all my settings exactly the way I want them. This proved more difficult than I had expected. To do this properly, I needed a website that was free, did not require registration, would hold my file permanently, allow unlimited public downloads, give it an URL I could remember, and allow me to make changes to the file without having to re-upload. This was a tall order, but Pastebin.com fit the bill.
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