I use stow
to manage my dotfiles, so the structure here replicates that of ~/
.
If you want to put new symlinks into your home folder, run this:
stow --target ~/ --no-folding .
There are also cases where you might want to import (or "adopt") the files in your home folder over top of the things here:
stow --target ~/ --no-folding --adopt .
Be careful. This stuff can be messy to clean up if it goes wrong. See man stow
.