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Re:Customizing Your Shell by wincent on Friday April 17, 2020 @09:45AM (#22898913)
Or you could stick your dotfiles and other config in a repo and clone it onto the new machine. Some examples of approaches on this prior thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11070797
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Re:Customizing Your Shell by RMPR on Friday April 17, 2020 @09:52AM (#22898962)
GNU Stow[1] and chezmoi[2] are two decent approaches for solving common dotfiles problems.

[1]: https://www.gnu.org/software/stow/

[2]: https://fedoramagazine.org/take-back-your-dotfiles-with-chez...

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Re:Customizing Your Shell by emilecantin on Friday April 17, 2020 @10:33AM (#22899286)
I went a step further, and automated as much as I can with Ansible. Had to reinstall everything after an SSD failure recently, this made it a fun project. I'm also planning on upgrading my machine soon, so that should make the process a lot faster.

I started from this and customized it to my needs: https://github.com/geerlingguy/mac-dev-playbook

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