Geek's dotfiles

Installation

1. Whichever platform you are on make sure you have stow and git

   For ubuntu sudo apt install git stow

2. Clone this repo in home dir

   git clone https://github.com/patheticGeek/.dotfiles
   

3. Run the install script

   cd .dotfiles && ./dotfiles.sh setup
   

   The folders to be used are stored in dotfiles_folders. It is a space separated list.

Now ./dotfiles.sh script will also be available as dotfiles as it is aliased in shell.

Some explanation

I'm using stow to manage the symlinks and git to version and backup.

This is inspired by https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkUllCAGs3c

Each folder in this repo will have its contents (files and folders) placed as symlink in the home dir.

So if i have a file and folder such as zsh/.zshrc, zsh/.oh-my-zsh/custom

and then run stow zsh it will create symlinks at ~/.zshrc and ~/.oh-my-zsh/custom.

The personal folder is a submodule, it is a private repo where i have my personal keys and stuff.

How to add/delete more stuff

Can do so via dotfiles [add|delete] FOLDER FILE command. e.g.

# Will add file at correct path to others folder
dotfiles add others ~/.config/mimeapps.list

# Will remove file from others folder and put it at original path
dotfiles delete others ~/.config/mimeapps.list

dotfiles command help

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