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Using GNU Stow to manage dotfiles

Create a ~/.dotfiles directory and move all the dotfiles you want to have in that file and craete symlinks for.
```
mkdir ~/.dotfiles
```
Use stow to create symlinks for the files using the following command:
```
stow .
```
- NOTE: the above command create symlinks in the parent directory of the directory it's ran in.
- If you have the .dotfiles directory in some other folder use the following command as such
```
stow --dir=~/.dotfiles --target=~/
# OR
stow -d ~/.dotfiles -t ~/
```
- NOTE: stow create symlinks in the exact same manner as it's stored in the source directory. e.g if you have a file as ./config/myconfig it will create symlink in the target directory in the config folder.
- Also make sure before running the command for the first time you don't have the exact same name in the target, on preceding iterations stow will not throw any error and continue to work.
To remove all the symlinks create by stow use the following command:
```
# within the source dotfiles directory
stow -D .
```

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Important things to change on new os setup 💻

Run the command below to enable autocd i.e you won't have to prepend the directory name with cd when you want to chage to that direcotry.
```
shopt -s autocd
```
Add aliases for remove rm and move mv and the copy command cp command that prompts us with a conformation before performing the action.
```
alias rm="rm -i"
alias mv="mv -i"
alias cp="cp -i"
```
Ignore duplicates when using history command to view bash history
```
export HISTCONTROL=ignoreboth
```

Remove that user and host crap from the PS1 prompt but keeping that when the propmt is not a color_propmpt.

if [ "$color_prompt" = yes ]; then
  PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}[\033[92m\w\033[0m]$ '
else
    PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u@\h:[\w]$ '
fi

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