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|	DAN or Dotfile mANager, a tiny scripts used to ease	your dotfile	| 
|	management systems. written in bash and powershell.					|
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Dan is an independent hobby distribution made with a goal of being 
compact, understandable, hackable, and easy to maintain.


=== 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


=== Codes
=========
The code is inspired by my dotfile manager project before this, it 
called DotMan. But it had too many bugs and very dependant to linux, 
meanwhile this DAN is not. But you still need bash or powershell, 
because it is created with bash and powershell.


=== 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/)


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

	- Windows 11
	You need to have Scoop and Powershell installed on your system.
	Powershell already installed by system, So you just need to 
	install scoop.
	Step-by-step Installation on w11:
		- open your terminal, and then paste command below (one by one)
		- git clone https://github.com/ahmadinne/dan
		- cd dan
		- .\install.ps1
	There you go, Dan is ready to use!

	- Linux
	You need to have git 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
		- cd dan
		- cp -rf dan /usr/bin (if you will delete the folder)
	There you go, Dan is ready to use!


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