Symlink and hide dotfiles

Question

How could I rename a bunch of dotfiles and add the leading dot in the same command? I see people writing:

ln -s vimrc .vimrc
ln -s gitconfig .gitconfig

But I would like something like this:

ln -s {vimrc,gitconfig} ~/.$1

Answer 1

Using for loop:

for f in vimrc gitconfig; do ln -s  $f .$f ; done

If you have the filename list in a file:

for f in `cat filename_list.txt`; do mv $f .$f ; done