From 794dc843b3bdd731fa4df2d8296ef22950ef8c5a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nick Nisi <nick@nisi.org>
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2016 10:45:29 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] add backup script, cleanup link script

* add initial stab at a backup script to copy existing files to a backup directory
* clean up unused code in link.sh
---
 install/backup.sh | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 install/link.sh   |  4 +---
 2 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
 create mode 100755 install/backup.sh

diff --git a/install/backup.sh b/install/backup.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..632a1ca
--- /dev/null
+++ b/install/backup.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+# Backup files that are provided by the dotfiles into a ~/dotfiles-backup directory
+
+DOTFILES=$HOME/.dotfiles
+BACKUP_DIR=$HOME/dotfiles-backup
+
+set -e # TODO: what does this do?
+
+echo "Creating backup directory at $BACKUP_DIR"
+mkdir -p $BACKUP_DIR
+
+linkables=$( find -H "$DOTFILES" -maxdepth 3 -name '*.symlink' )
+
+for file in $linkables; do
+    filename=".$( basename $file '.symlink' )"
+    target="$HOME/$filename"
+    if [ -e $target ]; then
+        echo "backing up $filename"
+        cp $target $BACKUP_DIR
+    fi
+done
+
+typeset -a files=($HOME/.config/nvim $HOME/.vim $HOME/.vimrc)
+for file in $files; do
+    if [ -e $file ]; then
+        cp -rf $file $BACKUP_DIR
+    fi
+done
diff --git a/install/link.sh b/install/link.sh
index 8b9b944..2027153 100755
--- a/install/link.sh
+++ b/install/link.sh
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ echo -e "\nCreating symlinks"
 echo "=============================="
 linkables=$( find -H "$DOTFILES" -maxdepth 3 -name '*.symlink' )
 for file in $linkables ; do
-    target="$HOME/.$( basename $file ".symlink" )"
+    target="$HOME/.$( basename $file '.symlink' )"
     if [ -e $target ]; then
         echo "~${target#$HOME} already exists... Skipping."
     else
@@ -47,8 +47,6 @@ vimfiles[~/.vim]=$DOTFILES/config/nvim
 vimfiles[~/.vimrc]=$DOTFILES/config/nvim/init.vim
 
 for file in "${!vimfiles[@]}"; do
-# for file in "${(@k)vimfiles}"; do
-    # echo "$file -> $vimfiles[$file]"
     if [ -e ${file} ]; then
         echo "${file} already exists... skipping"
     else