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Re: zdotdir

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From: Yuri D'Elia <wavexx@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: zdotdir
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 18:28:23 +0100
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On 03/10/2014 04:32 PM, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> Just create symbolic links:
> 
> cd $ZDOTDIR
> for dotfile in zshenv zshrc zprofile zlogin; ln -s $dotfile .$dotfile
> 
> If for some reason you don't want to use symlinks, you can instead do
> 
> cd $ZDOTDIR
> for dotfile in zshenv zshrc zprofile zlogin
>   print "source \$ZDOTDIR/$dotfile" > .$dotfile
> 
> but that will print errors about missing files if you don't create all
> four of the dot-less ones, which the symlink approach will not.

Not fancy, but will do ;)
Thanks, didn't think about this.

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