- http://dotfiles.github.io
- https://iamdan.me/better-dotfiles
- https://github.com/queer/boxxy
- https://0x46.net/thoughts/2019/02/01/dotfile-madness
- https://cheatsheets.stephane.plus/admin/avoid_dotfile_madness
- https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_user_directories
- https://xdgbasedirectoryspecification.com
- https://www.anand-iyer.com/blog/2018/a-simpler-way-to-manage-your-dotfiles.html
- https://dev.to/spacerockmedia/how-i-manage-my-dotfiles-using-gnu-stow-4l59
- https://gnu.org/software/stow/manual/stow.html
- https://rednafi.com/misc/pesky_little_scripts
- https://medium.com/@todariasova/managing-your-dotfiles-59e13e8ab2d6 git work-tree manipulation?
- https://blog.larah.me/mess-directory automation tricks
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=259356 Firefox support for XDG base directories; open since 2004
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=735285 Thunderbird support for XDG base directories; open since 2012
- https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SVN-4599 name of ~/.subversion/ directory is hard-coded; open since 2015
- markqvist/Reticulum#732 hard-coded paths to Reticulum/LXMF config files
$ touch ~/.face
$ ln -sf ~/.face ~/.face.icon
$ ~/bin/rmshit.py
Found shitty files:
/home/meh/.face
/home/meh/.face.icon
Remove all? (y/[n]) y
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/meh/bin/rmshit.py", line 158, in <module>
main()
File "/home/meh/bin/rmshit.py", line 151, in main
rmtree(f)
File "/usr/lib/python3.12/shutil.py", line 759, in rmtree
_rmtree_safe_fd(stack, onexc)
File "/usr/lib/python3.12/shutil.py", line 703, in _rmtree_safe_fd
onexc(func, path, err)
File "/usr/lib/python3.12/shutil.py", line 674, in _rmtree_safe_fd
topfd = os.open(name, os.O_RDONLY | os.O_NONBLOCK, dir_fd=dirfd)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/meh/.face.icon'
If you encounter silly DNS problems in macOS, you may need the following command:
sudo dscacheutil -flushcache ; sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder
Occasionally, you will run into a file in your home directory that you aren't allowed to execute or delete. This is caused by macOS trying to be "helpful". You can fix this on a case-by-case basis by typing:
xattr -d com.apple.quarantine /path/to/file xattr -d com.apple.macl /path/to/file # might not be needed
Fix a bunch of them in bulk perhaps using:
find /path/to/directory -exec xattr -d com.apple.quarantine {} \;
find /path/to/directory -exec xattr -d com.apple.macl {} \; # might not be needed
You can also fix this behaviour permanently for all files using:
sudo defaults write com.apple.LaunchServices LSQuarantine -bool NO sudo reboot
- https://superuser.com/questions/28384/what-should-i-do-about-com-apple-quarantine
- https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/373176/disable-the-use-of-the-com-apple-quarantine-extended-attribute-on-mojave
- https://www.brunerd.com/blog/2020/01/07/track-and-tackle-com-apple-macl
- https://www.arno.org/on-the-origins-of-ds-store
- https://danmackinlay.name/notebook/macos_hacks.html
- https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-flush-dns-on-mac-macos-clear-dns-cache