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Bhupesh Varshney 👾 •

Awesome 🔥, I encountered the same thing a while back, so spent an afternoon writing about it.

How to Build Your Own Linux Dotfiles Manager from Scratch

Also, open for contributions

GitHub logo Bhupesh-V / dotman

dotman is a simple, elegant & easy to use dotfiles manager 🖖🏽

build status badge License: MIT platform: linux and macos bash love Website Status dotman Twitter: bhupeshimself



✨ Learn how I made d○tman from scratch ✨


Demo 🔥

dotman-demo

🌠 Features

  • Single file manager (Portable)
  • No config files for dotman (No .dotrc 🤦)
  • No useless arguments (single command 😎)
  • Easy to use
  • Extendable ⚒, Available as a Template
  • Fewer Dependencies
    • Git
    • Bash>=3

Wait! it's not written in a fancy language

And it doesn't have to be. Why?

  • Your focus should be on your dot files & scripts rather than on a dotfiles manager or how to use it.(Wait I forgot what was the command to push files? Is it dt push or dt --push)
  • Creating a overly-complex solution for something simple should not be the goal.

💠 Installation

via curl ➰ 

sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Bhupesh-v/dotman/master/tools/install.sh)"
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via wget 📥 

sh -c "$(wget -O- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Bhupesh-v/dotman/master/tools/install.sh)"
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via httpie 🥧 

sh -c "$(http --download https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Bhupesh-v/dotman/master/tools/install.sh)
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