From: Colin Patrick McCabe <cmccabe@alumni.cmu.edu>
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 23:18:30 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: Add the install-symlinks.sh script
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Add the install-symlinks.sh script
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diff --git a/install-symlinks.sh b/install-symlinks.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..3588ed2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/install-symlinks.sh
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+#!/bin/sh
+
+#
+# install-symlinks.sh
+#
+# Script for installing symlinks to these rc files into your home directory.
+# It's assumed that your home directory is the directory immediately above this
+# one.
+#
+# Colin McCabe
+#
+
+die() {
+	echo "$@"
+	exit 1
+}
+
+FULLPATH=`readlink -f $0`
+BASEDIR=`dirname ${FULLPATH}`
+for file in ${BASEDIR}/.[^.]*; do
+	# get base file name, like ".gitconfig"
+	basefile=`basename ${file}`
+
+	# get relative file name, like "cmccabe-etc/.gitconfig"
+	relfile=`echo ${file} | sed 's_.*/\([^/]*/[^/]*\)$_\1_'`
+
+	# skip files which we don't want to link
+	if [ "${basefile}" == ".git" ]; then
+		continue;
+	fi
+
+	pushd .. > /dev/null
+	if [ -L ${basefile} ]; then
+		# Someone already created this link. Pass over it in silence
+		:
+	elif [ -z ${basefile} ]; then
+		# Create the link
+		ln -s ${relfile} || die "failed to link ${relfile}"
+		echo "created ${relfile}..."
+	elif [ -f ${basefile} ]; then
+		echo "${basefile} already exists as a regular file"
+	else
+		echo "${basefile} already exists"
+	fi
+	popd > /dev/null
+done