How to Create a Host Dependent Bash Configuration

I use LXD containers to develop locally.

To ease development, I share my home directory with the containers.

This is convenient, but brings along a couple of issues on its own, especially for .bashrc modifications, which only apply to the host.

e.g. activating bash completion for pipx.

eval "$(register-python-argcomplete pipx)"

This certainly only works on my host, where the binary is on the path, but not in my development containers.

if - then - fi

One simple solution is to wrap the host specific parts in an if block:

if [ "$HOSTNAME" = "my-hostname" ]
then
    # pipx completions
    eval "$(register-python-argcomplete pipx)"
fi