GitHub - b3nj5m1n/xdg-ninja: A shell script which checks your $HOME for unwanted files and directories.
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A shell script which checks your $HOME for unwanted files and directories. - GitHub - b3nj5m1n/xdg-ninja: A shell script which checks your $HOME for unwanted files and directories.

Do you want to keep your home directory tidy and free from clutter? If so, xdg-ninja is here to help. This shell script checks your $HOME for unwanted files and directories, and tells you if it’s possible to move them to a more appropriate location.

The configurations for xdg-ninja come from the Arch Wiki page on XDG_BASE_DIR, antidot, and other users. The script is easy to use, and you can run it either manually or with Homebrew.

If you’re using nix, you can run the following command: nix run github:b3nj5m1n/xdg-ninja.

xdg-ninja’s dependencies include your favorite POSIX-compliant shell, and jq for parsing the JSON files. Additionally, you can use optional programs like glow for rendering Markdown in the terminal.

You can configure xdg-ninja by defining a program and a list of files and directories that this program puts into your $HOME directory. For each file or directory, you can specify if it can be moved, and if so, you can provide instructions on how to accomplish that.

To learn more about xdg-ninja, visit the project’s GitHub repository. Keep your $HOME clean with xdg-ninja!

  • nachtigall@feddit.deEnglish
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    3 years ago

    And Pike wrote this passage in the very article you mentioned:

    (For those who object that dot files serve a purpose, I don’t dispute that but counter that it’s the files that serve the purpose, not the convention for their names. They could just as easily be in $HOME/cfg or $HOME/lib, which is what we did in Plan 9, which had no dot files. Lessons can be learned.)

    And guess what, there is actually such a directory on most Unix-derived OS nowadays - $XDG_DATA_HOME/$XDG_CACHE_HOME, which Go could just honour if the environment variable was set and fallback to cluttering $HOME. But no, they insist on their insular solution…