flipflop133 / Dotfiles_manager

Backup and restore your dotfiles easily

DOTFILES MANAGER UTILITY

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Features:

• Backup and restore all your dotfiles.
• Backup and restore all your system files.
• Backup manually installed packages.
• push dotfiles to your repo
• White spaces in paths are supported.

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How to use:

Backup:

Dotfiles

Simply put all the paths of your dotfiles(directories or files) in "dotfiles_list.txt" as follow: dotfiles_list.txt:

.config/polybar
.config/nvim/init.vim

(No need to add your home path.) Run the script in your terminal:

$ ./dotfiles_manager.sh

System files

Simply put all the paths of your system files(directories or files) in "system_files.txt" as follow: system_files.txt:

/etc/lightdm
/etc/fstab

Run the script in your terminal:

$ ./dotfiles_manager.sh

Restore:

Clone your dotfile backup repository.

Dotfiles

Put the dotfiles_manager.sh and dotfiles_list.txt files inside your cloned repository. Run the script in your terminal:

$ ./dotfiles_manager.sh

System files

Put the dotfiles_manager.sh and system_files.txt files inside your cloned repository. Run the script as root in your terminal:

$ ./dotfiles_manager.sh

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Feel free to do pull requests ;)

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Thanks to Mortezadadgar for his help and feedbacks on this script!