Sync macOS ssh config with iCloud

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As a developer, sometimes I have to restore backups due to “beta” system issues.

Fortunately, most of the data is stored on servers these days. Not only Safari, Photos, Calendar, Notes, and Reminders, but also other apps use iCloud storage. This is a great improvement. I just need to reinstall apps from the App Store and brew shell after reinstalling the system.

But it’s annoying to set up SSH and configurations again. Plus, I might lose my private keys.

So I created a new folder named “macOS” in the iCloud Drive folder and copied all the files without a “.” to it. For example: .gitconfig ~> gitconfig.

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cd ~
macOS=/Users/art/Library/Mobile\ Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/macOS

ln -sf $macOS/gitignore .gitignore
ln -sf $macOS/gitignore .gitignore_global
ln -sf $macOS/gitconfig .gitconfig

ln -sf $macOS/zshrc .zshrc
ln -sf $macOS/config  .config
ln -sf $macOS/ssh  .ssh

mkdir -p Blog

# hexo
npm install hexo-cli -g
hexo init Blog
cd Blog
npm install
rm -rf source
ln -s ~/Documents/Blog/source ~/Blog/source

brew install ruby python pandoc

brew install openssl youtube-dl ffmpeg pyenv rbenv rclone autojump mp4box

# ruby
rbenv install 2.7.0
rbenv global 2.7.0

brew cask install iterm2  sourcetree vmware-fusion flux sublime-text shadowsocksx-ng clashx wwdc spectacle losslesscut iina dropbox typora istat-menus 1password calibre imageoptim plex-media-server vscode osxfuse firefox chromium

# preview
brew cask install qlvideo qlstephen qlcolorcode quicklook-json qlmarkdown qlprettypatch qlimagesize suspicious-package provisionql


Any cloud drive (such as Dropbox) can achieve this, but considering privacy and the information provided in this letter by Tim Cook to customers,

I choose iCloud 😊

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