Question: Symlink into a subdirectory of home - e.g. ~/.aws/config

[bradical]

I was wondering if you had any suggestions for symlinking a config file into a subdirectory of a .dot directory in home, specifically .aws files?

Is there any capacity to do this already with the current .symlink behavior?

[redhotvengeance]

Speaking personally, I add a link.sh to each folder that has more complicated linking needs. And then I have a script/link script to run all of them: https://github.com/redhotvengeance/dotfiles/blob/fe8be45f7c38a098f104a8cf0c6f6a61c9901d0a/script/link#L25

[bradical]

Clever. Thanks! So this could create the ~/.aws directory if didn't exist and add a config file.

[redhotvengeance]

@bradical Yep. Check out one of my link.sh files that does several actions: https://github.com/redhotvengeance/dotfiles/blob/main/nvim/link.sh

[schangj09]

Hey, This is pretty nice. I also wanted to make links in directories and I took a different approach. My idea is to use a different extension '.dsymlink' and update bootstrap so that it links those files into a sub-directory of home. https://github.com/schangj09/dotfiles/commit/db41cc80952ce065547634f53ac16d35e4b1cb7a

Note: I didn't test it much, so for example, I'm not sure what happens when the directory doesn't exist, but it should be easy to fix if needed.