stash - simple symlink manager.

A simplified symlink manager symlink manager similar to GNU stow written in POSIX shell script. stash is feature minimal since its intended use case is symlinking user configuration files stored in a version controlled repository. To this end, directories are created rather than linked, so that data application data does not migrate to a configuration repository.

Example usage

stash ~/dotfiles/config ~/.config

Install

stash is a single shell executable.

The included Makefile will perform a user-level install by linking the stash executable to XDG_BIN_HOME, which defaults to ~/.local/bin/stash.

git clone https://github.com/shawnohare/stash
cd stash
make install

The man page is installed to ${XDG_DATA_HOME}/man/man1, which man will search provided that ${XDG_DATA_HOME}/../bin is an element of $PATH.

Uninstall

For a user-level install the provided Makefile can be used to uninstall the executable and its manpage.

make uninstall

Otherwise, simply remove the executable and associated manpage. For example

rm /usr/local/bin/stash
rm /usr/local/man/man1/stash.1

Testing

The shell scripting testing framework bats is included as a git submodule.

git submodule init
git submodule update

git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/shawnohare/stash
make test

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