slmap

symbolic link map

Simple utility to manage a list of symlinks so you can centralize your config files in a repo and symlink to them.

usage

slmap --map map.toml
commands are create, update, clean, and status
create will create all the symlinks if there are no existing conflicting files
update will update -only- symlinks to point at new target, or create new symlinks if they don't exist
status will go through the map and check the statuses of symlinks. The possible statuses are:

• Correct
• Incorrect
• NotSymlink
• Missing
• Error
  unexpected statuses will result in no writes, and will print the statuses
  clean deletes all the symlinks in map.toml

Note: the links are relative to where the slmap command is run. Paths are interpretted with shell variables and ~

Future goals:

• actually handling permissions
• error handling nicely vs just panics
• checking in a new file to the map
  • swap out the txt into the repository and update the map

file format:

[filename]  
target = 'path/to/file'  
link_name = 'path/to/file'

[directory]
target = 'config/dir'
link_name = 'test/dir'
directory = true

[zshrc]  
target = 'config/zshrc'  
link_name = 'test/.zshrc'  
  
[vimrc]  
target = 'config/vimrc'  
link_name = 'test/.vimrc'   

[motd]
target = 'config/motd'
link_name = '/etc/motd'