Add `prefix:` option to links created with `glob: true`

Perhaps this is a niche case, but in my dotfiles, I have a subdirectory for most of the true “dot” files. i.e.:

dotfiles
├── README.md
├── bin
│   ├── dotbot
│   ├── look
│   ├── pbfile
│   └── ...
├── dot
│   ├── bashrc
│   ├── gitconfig
│   ├── gitignore
│   ├── gorc
│   ├── login
│   ├── ...
│   ├── zshrc
│   └── zshenv
├── ...

I don’t believe there is a way using the link: module to create symlinks in my home directory for all the files in the dot subdirectory, sans excluded ones, given #248 when merged.

That is, what I want is to replace the MANY lines in my dotconf.yml like this:

- link:
    # Then everything in dot subdir:
    # Wish I could do this via a glob
    ~/.bashrc:          dot/bashrc
    ~/.gitconfig:       dot/gitconfig
    ~/.gitignore:       dot/gitignore
   ...

… with a glob version, something like this:

- link:
    ~/:
       glob: true
       path: ~/.dotfiles/dot/*
       prefix: '.'

Note the addition of the prefix: option which specifies the prefix to be added to the basename of the file to be symlinked.

Alternatives welcome, or if I missed something in the documentation for how this should be configured, a pointer to the documentation.

[eengstrom]

thanks @etkeys - I saw that issue/PR, but I think my case is the dual of that. In my case, none of my config files have leading . when stored in my git repo. Instead, I want to add the leading period when the links are created via dotbot. Ideally, I would NOT have to store them in git with leading periods, as that makes editing / etc more difficult, IMO.

Separately, thanks for sharing your config file example - my goodness, there’s quite a lot in there. In our environment, which I lead and manage, we use ansible to configure the system. I’m looking at dotbot just for my personal configuration. If yours is for personal system config, that might be overkill, but if you start to manage many systems, even just a small handful, I really would look at ansible.

[anishathalye]

Not yet, will try to take a look later this week or over the weekend.