stupid-dotfiles

The stupid dotfiles manager for symbolically linking dotfiles from the current working directory to the home directory only if that file does not already exist in the home directory. It also creates a directory if the file is in a subdirectory.

Getting Started

Operating System Compatibility

OS	Status
Linux	✅
macOS	✅
Windows (WSL2)	✅

Basic Installation

First, download the main script file to the ~/.local/bin directory:

Method	Command
curl	mkdir -p ~/.local/bin && curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sidthidet-k/stupid-dotfiles/main/stupid-dotfiles.sh -o ~/.local/bin/stupid-dotfiles && chmod +x ~/.local/bin/stupid-dotfiles
wget	mkdir -p ~/.local/bin && wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sidthidet-k/stupid-dotfiles/main/stupid-dotfiles.sh -O ~/.local/bin/stupid-dotfiles && chmod +x ~/.local/bin/stupid-dotfiles
fetch	mkdir -p ~/.local/bin && fetch https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sidthidet-k/stupid-dotfiles/main/stupid-dotfiles.sh -o ~/.local/bin/stupid-dotfiles && chmod +x ~/.local/bin/stupid-dotfiles

If ~/.local/bin is not in the PATH environment variable, add the following command to ~/.bashrc file for Bash:

PATH=$PATH:~/.local/bin

or to ~/.zshrc file for Zsh:

path+=(~/.local/bin)

Alternatively, you can use stupid-dotfiles without installing it because it is only a single bash script file:

Method	Command
curl	sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sidthidet-k/stupid-dotfiles/main/stupid-dotfiles.sh)"
wget	sh -c "$(wget -O- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sidthidet-k/stupid-dotfiles/main/stupid-dotfiles.sh)"
fetch	sh -c "$(fetch -o - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sidthidet-k/stupid-dotfiles/main/stupid-dotfiles.sh)"

Using stupid-dotfiles

First, mark any directory for stupid-dotfiles by creating a .stupid-dotfiles-ignore file to specify files to ignore (stupid-dotfiles will error if .stupid-dotfiles-ignore file does not exist):

touch .stupid-dotfiles-ignore

By default, the following files are ignored:

• .stupid-dotfiles-ignore
• .git/*
• .gitignore
• README.md

Now you can create dotfiles:

touch .vimrc

Run the stupid-dotfiles command:

stupid-dotfiles

Then it symbolically links .vimrc from the current directory to the home directory.

Example

In the dotfiles directory:

• .stupid-dotfiles-ignore
• .git/
• .gitignore
• README.md
• .vimrc
• .config/nvim/init.vim

In the home directory:

• .vimrc (symbolic link)
• .config/nvim/init.vim (symbolic link)

License

stupid-dotfiles is released under the MIT license.