fling computes and creates/removes the minimal amount of symlinks needed in a directory to refer to files and directories in another directory, similar to Stow. It can also be used to manage your dotfiles.
fling is much dumber than Stow – it’s missing several options, only considers one directory at a time, and deals with absolute paths only (in contrast, Stow works exclusively with relative paths).
As a tradeoff, fling’s codebase is simpler. fling compiles to a single binary and contains fewer lines of code. It’s very easy to understand what fling will do for a particular invocation: fling prints out (in color!) what it plans to link/unlink and asks you (by default) before continuing.
This is free and open source software.
Website: github.com/bbkane/fling
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Developer: Benjamin Kane
License: MIT License
fling is written in Go. Learn Go with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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