DOTFILES

Disclaimer

The files inside the "/link" folder and the program inside "/linker" were tailored for my personal use, tested only on my systems(MacOS and whatever linux distro I'm using currently), feel free to copy some of these but I can't ensure they'll work on your system!!

Setup

On the link-map.txt, write where your folder/file should be linked to like:

RELATIVE_PATH_TO_FILE_OR_FOLDER:WHERE_THE_SYMLINK_SHOULD_BE_CREATED

Eg.:

./link/nvim:~/.config/nvim  #folder
./link/.zsh:~/.zsh          #file

• the "link" folder is just a suggestion, you can rename the folder or use more than one, they just have to be properly written at the link-map.txt

Also, notice that the origin path should be relative to the working directory of this project while the target path have to be an absolute path starting from the user home path ("~/").

check the functions getTargetPath and getOriginPath at linker/src/main.zig if you wanna know why.

Run the linker program

run on your terminal when inside the project folder:

./dotfiles

success

On success you'll see where each file/folder ended being liked to like this:

error

On error, the program will tell you what could have gone wrong:

Tweak the linker

The program is simple and made using Zig, on a nutshell it will read the contents of the link-map.txt, do some validations and then link the paths.

Edit whatever you need on it and then run using the dev flag

# at: /dotfiles/linker/
zig run src/main.zig -- dev

if you run it from the project root(/dotfiles), you don't have to use the dev flag since its only purpose it to set the cwd one level down.

The build output is located at /linker/zig-out/bin/ and you can replace the "dotfiles" file at the project root with it.