link_o_matic

Learning Rust on my own

just one more dot file symlinker_o_matic

uses convention over configuration principle

Expects an environment variable REPO_LOCATION which points to where dotfiles are checked out. Doesn't have to always be set, just need to set it when you run link_o_matic

Expects an environment variable HOST42 which is whatever string you want to represent the host you are on. Can be the same as HOST or different if you want to obfuscate the files for that host in your repo.

Any files that begin with _${HOST42} will only be symlinked. Other machines should get their own dang HOST42. When symlinked it will be renamed _machine so you can just source that file without knowing the ultimate HOST 42

Any files that begin with _mac or _linux will only be symlinked on that host. When symlinked it will be renamed _platform so you can just source that file without knowing which platform.

Commands

install cleanup autocleanup implode

install

Starts in REPO_LOCATION/home

If it is a dir, it is recursed. If it is a file, a symlink is made to it. If it is a symlink, a symlink is made to its target.

cleanup

Looks for links in ~ that link to something in REPO_LOCATION/home Look in the root of ~, or recursively through any ~/dir that has a matching REPO_LOCATION/home/dir to avoid scanning through the entire home directory. So if you remove a top level directory you'll leave orphaned links at this point, unless you remove them from the repo first and cleanup before removing the top level directory. TODO: is there a better way?

If it's a broken or invalid link, prompts to delete.

autocleanup

Same as above but doesn't prompt.

implode

Looks for links in ~ that link to something in REPO_LOCATION/home Prompts to delete.

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