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 # dotfiles
 
 .files
+
+## Installing
+
+To link the files to the correct places run
+
+```
+./install.fish
+```
+
+Make sure you have fish installed.
+
+### How it works
+
+The script takes the directories in `dirs.list` and creats them (if they don't
+exist). After that it runs over `links.list` and takes the first path as source
+(appending ~/dotfiles) and the path after the space as the target (appending
+only ~/).