Zsh Sync

Synchronize files, often user specific configurations, across different environments.

This plugin provide simple commands: config-upload, config-download to make sure one can migrate workspace settings easily from one computer to another.

Use case

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ZSH_SYNC_FILES+=(
    .vimrc
    .vim/
    .tmux.conf
    .config/tmuxline.conf
)
config-upload

Setup

Download the plugin,

git clone https://github.com/vickyliin/zsh-sync.git ~/.oh-my-zsh/custom/plugins/zsh-sync

In .zshrc,

ZSH_SYNC_REMOTE=remote-hostname
plugins+=(zsh-sync)

Configurations

In addition to ZSH_SYNC_REMOTE, the configuration variables and their default values are:

ZSH_SYNC_REMOTE_PATH=
ZSH_SYNC_LOCAL_PATH=$HOME
ZSH_SYNC_FILES=(
    .zshrc
    .gitconfig
    .oh-my-zsh/custom/
)

You can override/append the variables after source $ZSH/oh-my-zsh.sh in .zshrc.

Make sure folders to sync in ZSH_SYNC_FILES ends with a slash (/).

Usage

• config-download

  Download all the files specified in $ZSH_SYNC_FILES from $ZSH_SYNC_REMOTE:$ZSH_SYNC_REMOTE_PATH to $ZSH_SYNC_LOCAL_PATH.

• config-upload

  Upload all the files specified in $ZSH_SYNC_FILES from $ZSH_SYNC_LOCAL_PATH to $ZSH_SYNC_REMOTE:$ZSH_SYNC_REMOTE_PATH.

Arguments

You can use any rsync arguments in config-upload and config-download. -r is passed automatically so you don't need to add one by yourself.

SSH Settings

These scripts use rsync to sync from an ssh host so you can setup ssh keys to prevent from passwords prompt everytime:

ssh-keygen -f ~/.ssh/my_key
ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/my_key user@hostname