Dut, yet another simple dotfile manager!

Dotfiles, as implied by its nickname, are files named prepended with a dot, that configure software initial settings and usually resides hidden on $HOME directories.

Users craft their dotfiles through the years with a such a care that them can easily be the most sensible and essential files in their system, version-controlling is a must, of course.

There is even a culture of proudly publicly sharing dotfiles, and that’s a good way to grab some cool snippets.

We all love how frugal and simple to use are the Linux tools as find, grep or ls, so I kept that in mind on cooking up Dut.

Dut creates links of all files in the target directory, perfectly mirroring them in the destination directory, $HOME by default:

dut --from /data/dotfile_folder --create

Of course you can just try it out first:

dut --from /data/dotfile_folder --pretend

To remove all linked files, it goes as:

dut -f /data/dotfile_folder --remove

It goes as easy to set a different destination:

dut -f /data/bin --to ~/.local/bin --create

We don’t want that just every file to be linked, eg: LICENSE. For those files, you can pin out their location by feeding the .dutignore, that follows docker’s .dockerignore.

Conflicting files found at the destination directory are moved up to $HOME/.backup.

And that is it.

For more information, check the README.md in the main repository, or the --help option.

PS: In case you are wondering what’s with all those main.* files, as I pick a new language to learn, Dut is a good initial project as it offers a good set of challenges.

But I reckon that only the Ruby, Guile and PHP versions are fully functional.

With that said, pick your poison! :)