dotcp

Copy selected dotfiles to directory

What is it?

As said, dotcp copies selected dotfiles to directory you indicated. For example, dotcp ~/awesome-dotifles/config/ will copy your selected dotfiles into ~/awesome-dotfiles/config/. How to select dotfiles, you would ask? dotcp has it's own config. E.g:

i3
fish
alacritty

(dotcp's config file path should be $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/dotcp/config, but you can indicate it using --config option)

Now dotcp will copy i3, fish and alacritty config directories into ~/awesome-dotfiles/config/ if you would run the previous command.

Why?

Just wanted to have something similar to this script but customizable and extensible.

Installation

dotcp can be easily installed via pip (as any other shitty python program):

pip install --user dotcp

Usage

At first just run dotcp without any flags, indicating destination directory that does not yet exist (e.g. destination-dir):

dotcp destination-dir/

Then you will have to use one of these flags: --overwrite or --append to update content of destination directory.

• --overwrite does the same thing as rm -r destination-dir && dotcp destination-dir
• --append appends your selected dotfiles into destination-dir saving its content

Examples:

• dotcp --overwrite destination-dir/
• dotcp --append destination-dir/