Linking to a target defined by the output of a command

Hi, I tried to add my Firefox ‘chrome’ directory to dotbot today, but the challenge is that it is stored inside the profile directory: ~/.mozilla/firefox/XXXXXX.default/chrome, where XXXXXX is some random string that will be different on different machines (and may change, in theory, if I reconstruct a profile).

I can get that string, and hence construct the path, by running:

grep 'Path=' ~/.mozilla/firefox/profiles.ini | sed s/^Path=//

but it doesn’t seem that dotbot has support for embedding that in the link directive.

I tried:

- link:
    ~/.mozilla/firefox/$(grep 'Path=' ~/.mozilla/firefox/profiles.ini | sed s/^Path=//)/chrome: firefox/chrome

I also tried using a glob, but I guess this only works for the source, not the target. E.g., the following doesn’t work either (yes I enabled globbing):

- link:
    ~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/chrome: firefox/chrome

Could either of these two things (globbing on targets or $() be implemented, please?

Or if there’s a better way to achieve what I’m trying to do, please let me know 😃

Thanks for dotbot!

[99-lives]

Not to resurrect a dead issue, but I thought I’d post my solution to this for anyone who wants to keep their Firefox userChrome.css and user.js files in dotbot.

- shell:
    - [for profile in `grep Path ~/.mozilla/firefox/profiles.ini | sed s/^Path=//`; do mkdir ~/.mozilla/firefox/$profile/chrome/; ln -nsf $(pwd)/userChrome.css ~/.mozilla/firefox/$profile/chrome/userChrome.css; done, Linking Firefox userChrome.css to profiles]
    - [for profile in `grep Path ~/.mozilla/firefox/profiles.ini | sed s/^Path=//`; do ln -nsf $(pwd)/user.js ~/.mozilla/firefox/$profile/user.js; done, Linking Firefox user.js to profiles]

Unlike the above solutions, this is entirely within install.yaml.conf, and will work for every profile, on every device. I use multiple Firefox profiles (personal and work) across multiple devices, so this works much better for that use case. Feel free to stick this in the wiki if you want @anishathalye.

[anishathalye]

Closing due to inactivity, feel free to reopen if there’s anything else.