Agreed, I use a relatively simple shell script to link all of my files in a "home" directory in dropbox to my real home directory on multiple machines: #na

Agreed, I use a relatively simple shell script to link all of my files in a "home" directory in dropbox to my real home directory on multiple machines: #named link.sh, greps out some common things we don't want to link, also have vim stuff in a different dotfiles repo cd $(dirname $0) for F in $(ls -a1 | grep -v link.sh | egrep -v "^..?$" | grep -v .DS_Store | egrep -v ".hg(ignore)?$" | egrep -v "^vim$"); do if [ -a $HOME/$F ]; then echo "**** Found existing $F, skipping..." elif [ -h $HOME/$F ]; then echo "Already symlinked $F, skipping..." else echo "Linking $F" ln -s $PWD/$F $HOME/$F fi done