Small script to install a font under Linux by means of symlinking to it

install-font

#!/bin/bash

ERROR=0

mkdir -p "$HOME/.fonts"

for name in "$@"; do
    if [[ ! -f $name ]]; then
        echo "Can't find $name" >&2
        ERROR=1
        continue
    elif [[ -f $HOME/.fonts/$(basename "$name") ]]; then
        echo "A font named $(basename "$name") already exists" >&2
        ERROR=2
        continue
    fi

    FONT="$(readlink -fn "$name")"

    ln -s "$FONT" "$HOME/.fonts/$(basename "$name")"
done

mkfontscale "$HOME/.fonts"
mkfontdir "$HOME/.fonts"
fc-cache -f "$HOME/.fonts"

exit $ERROR