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diff --git a/man/rcm.7.mustache b/man/rcm.7.mustache index c9da706..8c8abd4 100644 --- a/man/rcm.7.mustache +++ b/man/rcm.7.mustache @@ -225,6 +225,33 @@ OS X users should see the .Sx BUGS section for more details. . +.Sh STANDALONE INSTALLATION SCRIPT +. +The +.Xr rcup 1 +tool can be used to generate a portable shell script. +Instead of running a command such as +.Xr ln 1 +or +.Xr rm 1 , +it will print the command to +.Li stdout . +This is controlled with the +.Fl g +flag. +Note that this will generate a script to create an exact replica of the +synchronization, including tags, host-specific files, and dotfiles directories. +.Pp +.Dl env RCRC=/dev/null rcup -B 0 -g > install.sh +.Pp +Using the above command, you can now run +.Li install.sh +to install (or re-install) your rc files. +The +.Li install.sh +script can be stored in your dotfiles directory, copied between computers, and +so on. +. .Sh RATIONALE The rcm suite was built as an abstraction over the shell, Ruby, Python, and make scripts people were writing and sharing. It is intended to run |