fling – file/directory symlinker

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
Support:
Developer: Benjamin Kane
License: MIT License

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