NAME

link-files - Create symlinks in one directory for files in another

SYNOPSIS

link-files <options>

 Options:
  -n, --dry-run             Don't actually do anything
  -s DIR, --source=DIR      The source directory
  -d DIR, --dest=DIR        The destination directory
  -r, --recursive           Recurse into subdirectories (see below)
  -i RX, --ignore=RX        A regex matching files to ignore (see below)
  -a RX, --add-ignore=RX    Like -i but doesn't replace the default
  -f, --force               Overwrite existing files/dirs
  -h, --help                Display this help message
  -v, --version             Display version information

By default, link-files will create symlinks in the destination directory for all top-level files, directories or symlinks found in the source directory. This is very useful for keeping the dot files in your $HOME under version control. A typical use case:

 cd ~/src/dotfiles
 # update or add files, commit to repository
 link-files --source . --dest ~

With --recursive, link-files will not create symlinks to subdirectories found in the source directory. It will instead recurse into them and create symlinks for any files or symlinks it finds. Any subdirectories not found in the destination directory will be created. This approach is useful for destination directories where programs or users other than yourself might add things to subdirectories which you don't want ending up in your working tree implicitly. /etc is a good example.

In both cases, symlinks from the source directory will be copied as-is. This makes sense because the symlinks might be relative.

If --ignore is not specified, it defaults to ignoring .git and .svn directories and their contents.

AUTHOR

Hinrik Örn Sigurðsson, hinrik.sig@gmail.com

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2009 Hinrik Örn Sigurðsson

This program is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.