Script to automatically create symlinks to config files

linker.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3

from pathlib import Path
from subprocess import run

# DOTFILES is the path to where you store your dotfiles
DOTFILES = Path.home().joinpath(".dotfiles/")

# SHELL_CMD should output a list of paths to files in your dotfiles directory
# They should be separated by newlines (\ņ)
SHELL_CMD = r"fdfind --hidden --type f --exclude '\.git' --exclude '\#*' ."

# EXCLUDES is a list of strings (interpreted as paths) to ignore
EXCLUDES = [
    ".gitignore",
    "halp",
    "linker.py",
    "linker.sh",
    ".",
]

excludes_paths = [Path(x) for x in EXCLUDES]

prcs = run(SHELL_CMD, shell=True, capture_output=True, cwd=DOTFILES)
path_str = prcs.stdout.decode("utf-8")
print("Found the following dotfiles:\n", path_str)

path_list = [Path(x) for x in path_str.split("\n")]

path_dirs = [x.parent for x in path_list]


def main():
    for dir in path_dirs:
        if not Path.home().joinpath(dir).is_dir():
            print(f"Creating directory {dir}")
            dir.mkdir(parents=True)

    for pp in path_list:
        home_path = Path.home().joinpath(pp)
        df_path = DOTFILES.joinpath(pp)
        if (not home_path.is_symlink()) and pp.name not in excludes_paths:
            print(f"Linking file {df_path} to symlink {home_path}")
            try:
                home_path.symlink_to(df_path)
            except FileExistsError as err:
                print(f"File {pp} already exists at {home_path}")
                print(err)


if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()