dot.sh

dot.sh is a small shell script that symlinks any dotfiles to another directory. This is useful if you want to sync some of your dotfiles with services like Syncthing or Dropbox.

Getting started

First, you need to tell dot.sh where your dotfiles will be located. This is done by setting the $DOTROOT environment variable:

$ export DOTROOT=~/Sync/dot

Next, in the root directory you just specified, you should create a file called dotfiles. Put one dotfile on each line; for example:

.bashrc
.config/mc
.emacs
.emacs.d

Now, simply run the shell script with no arguments.

$ dot.sh
moving and symlinking ~/.bashrc
moving and symlinking ~/.config/mc
moving and symlinking ~/.emacs
moving and symlinking ~/.emacs.d

Now, ~/.bashrc, ~/.config/mc, ~/.emacs, and ~/.emacs.d will all be symlinked to the respective files in your $DOTROOT. If any of those files already existed, they were moved into your $DOTROOT.

If you ever want to add or remove a dotfile, simply add or remove an entry from the dotfiles text file we created earlier, then run dot.sh again.

$ dot
removing ~/.emacs
removing ~/.emacs.d
moving and symlinking ~/.vimrc