dotfiles.sh

# usage: find-dotfiles [directory]
function find-dotfiles() {
  # I store my dotfiles in git, therefore I want to ignore
  # the following files, and everyone wants to ignore "."
  default_excludes=("." "*.git" "*.gitmodules") 
  exclude=$(printf " -not -iwholename '%s'" ${default_excludes[*]}) # map to -not -iwholename $FILE
  eval "find ${1-$PWD} -name '.*' $exclude -maxdepth 1 | xargs -L1 -I {} basename {}"
}

# usage: link-dotfiles [from] [to]
function link-dotfiles() {
  find-dotfiles ${1-$PWD} | xargs -L1 -I {} ln -s ${1-$PWD}/{} ${2-$HOME}/{}
}

# usage: unlink-dotfiles [from] [source]
function unlink-dotfiles() {
  find-dotfiles ${2-$PWD} | xargs -L1 -I {} rm -rf /tmp/d && mv ${1-$HOME}/{} /tmp/d/{}
}