slinky-cli

Reverse Symlink CLI

Move chosen files and/or directories, into a destination directory, and replace them with symlinks pointing to their new location.

The process gets reversed if symlinks are detected in the “source” location. This allows you to restore the chosen files back to their original locations.

Chosen files are zipped for archival purposes.

This is a macOS-specific tool; USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!

Pull requests are welcomed.

Installation

Install directly from GitHub:

$ npm i mhulse/adobe-dirs-cli -g

Usage

Create a file named config.yml; the contents should look something like this:

~/Desktop/target/:
- foo
- foo.txt

~/Desktop/target 2/:
- baz

… put this file in your desired destination directory.

From the command line, run slinky -d=~/Desktop/destination.

For more information, run slinky -h and check out this repo’s Wiki.

About

I wrote this CLI so I could move all Adobe Illustrator/Photoshop files into a centralized location for consolidation purposes and easy modification (if interested, check the wiki for example Adobe configurations).

Setting this up for a single computer is no prob … Getting another computer in sync is problematic because the symlinks, located deep within the Adobe Application directories, do not yet exist on the secondary computer.

Until I can add logic to account for this scenario, my current workaround is:

1. On the first computer, with the “destination” directory in DropBox, run this script.
2. On the secondary machine, temporarily rename the existing “destination” directory and recreate it with only the configuration file inside.
3. Run this script using the new “destination” directory.
4. Rename the new destination directory something unique (or back it up, or remove it).
5. Revert the name of the first destination directory.

Now symlinks on both machines are pointing to the same files and syncing between computers via DropBox.

Development notes

Clone the repository and run npm link to create a globally-installed symbolic link to this package.

For debug purposes, add a .env to the root of this project with text DEBUG=true.

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Copyright © 2017 Michael Hulse.

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