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Better Dotfiles

I am Dan, full stack software engineer.

Whilst reorganising my dotfiles I avoided superfluous dotfile managers and the limitations of the "version control $HOME" method by instead including first-line comments of the form<comment delimiter> ln <link name> in files which needed to be symlinked. If we change our awk to just print, add a substitution for~, ignore the.git directory when searching for files and package everything up in a function we end up with: We can also use the power of awk to remove old links when we update our files (this sits nicely in a git post-commit hook).

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