What is commonly referred to as dotfiles are all those small plain text files that contain your softwares’ configuration. Most of the time they reside in your
$HOMEdirectory but are hidden as they are prefixed with a dot, hence their name. For some apps, you can find them as well in the$HOME/.configdirectory.When it comes to managing them (i.e keep track of the changes, moving them around between different workstations, backing them up,…), there are different solutions:
- the good old USB stick
- rsyncing them
- syncing them in the “cloud”
- copying them in a central folder and symlinking them to where they are supposed to be found