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+-------------------------------------------------------------------+
|								DAN 								|
|		a tiny scripts used to ease	your dotfile management			|
+-------------------------------------------------------------------+
Dan is a dotfile manager with purpose for personal use. If you found
it useful, leave a star for the repo ;D


=== Features
============
Here are some of the features we had for now. These may change over
time as the project grows and develops:

	- Sync

	- Apply

	- Sync all

	- Apply all

	- Remove

	- List


=== Background
=========
The code is inspired by my previous dotfile manager, DotMan.
But it had too many bugs, so i abandoned it. And now i'm recreating
the dotfile manager, but in C.


=== Installation
================
Here are some installation tutorial step-by-step for some Operating
Systems:

	- Linux
	You need to have git and gcc installed on your system.
	Step-by-step installation on linux:
		- Open your terminal, and then paste command below (one by one)
		- git clone https://github.com/ahmadinne/dan.git; cd dan
		- sudo make install
	There you go, Dan is ready to use!


=== Inspiration
===============
Dan was inspired by and made possibly by the following amazing
projects:

	- GNU Stow (https://www.gnu.org/software/stow)

	- DotMan (https://github.com/ahmadinne/dotman)

	- Tin-Can Linux (https://tincan-linux.github.io/)


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