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Created April 26, 2012 15:46
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Link all dotfiles from Dropbox
#!/bin/bash
for filename in `ls /Users/psionides/Dropbox/dotfiles`; do
name=`basename $filename .txt`
echo "Linking /Users/psionides/Dropbox/dotfiles/$filename to /Users/psionides/.$name..."
rm -f /Users/psionides/.$name
ln -s /Users/psionides/Dropbox/dotfiles/$filename /Users/psionides/.$name
done
echo "Done."
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ku1ik commented Apr 26, 2012

Cool. Oh, and you can

ln -sf /Users/psionides/Dropbox/dotfiles/$filename /Users/psionides/.$name

and you don't need rm before.

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mackuba commented Apr 26, 2012

Nice, thanks. I see that there's also -F that works with directories too.

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