dotinstaller

A simple dotfiles installer script. I made this to speed up the process of installing my dotfiles repo on different computers and user accounts.

How does it work?

The script takes the dotfiles from the current user's dotfiles directory ($HOME/dotfiles) and symlinks them to the user's home directory. If the script finds that there is already a file with the same name, it moves that file to a backup directory ($HOME/dotbackups). If the script finds that there already exists a symlinked file with the same name to the dotfiles directory, it does nothing. If the symlink points a diffrent place, it removes the symlink.

What else is there to know?

I usually put the script in my $HOME/dotfiles directory and therefore the script ignores any files ending with .sh I have also included a sample .vimrc file.