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Re:Dotfiles: Unofficial Guide to Dotfiles on GitHub by jmondi on Tuesday May 07, 2024 @09:41AM (#40285341)
Using the GNU stow utility makes this super easy. It even has a --dotfiles flag so you can author your dotfiles as dot-zshrc and when the utility symlinks it, it will be .zshrc. Makes it nice so your source files are not hidden but the actual dotfiles are (as expected).
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Re:Dotfiles: Unofficial Guide to Dotfiles on GitHub by pprotas on Tuesday May 07, 2024 @09:44AM (#40285374)
Although GNU stow is very interesting, I like this simple script because it has no external dependencies. Stow is not available on macos by default, for example.
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Re:Dotfiles: Unofficial Guide to Dotfiles on GitHub by kdtsh on Tuesday May 07, 2024 @09:50AM (#40285434)
It is available though in every package manager for macOS except the App Store, and any user of a script like this on macOS is probably also using Homebrew, macports, Nix, or srcpkg.
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Re:Dotfiles: Unofficial Guide to Dotfiles on GitHub by rcarmo on Wednesday May 08, 2024 @06:02AM (#40296196)
I got mine from brew. Like 90% of my userland, really.
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