OSX / Ubuntu / Fedora / KaliLinux / Debian dotfiles. Is a fork from "Cowboy" Ben Alman. And more inspiration by jfrazelle
It is advisable to run this script on a newly installed operating system, because it changes the terminal and other features that you may have changed in the system.
I've been using bash on-and-off for a long time (since Slackware Linux was distributed on 1.44MB floppy disks). In all that time, every time I've set up a new Linux or OS X machine, I've copied over my .bashrc file and my ~/bin folder to each machine manually. And I've never done a very good job of actually maintaining these files. It's been a total mess.
I finally decided that I wanted to be able to execute a single command to "bootstrap" a new system to pull down all of my dotfiles and configs, as well as install all the tools I commonly use. In addition, I wanted to be able to re-execute that command at any time to synchronize anything that might have changed. Finally, I wanted to make it easy to re-integrate changes back in, so that other machines could be updated.
That command is dotfiles, and this is my "dotfiles" Git repo.
Because the dotfiles script is completely self-contained, you should be able to delete everything else from your dotfiles repo fork, and it will still work. The only thing it really cares about are the /copy, /link and /init subdirectories, which will be ignored if they are empty or don't exist.
If you modify things and notice a bug or an improvement, file an issue or a pull request and let me know.
Also, before installing, be sure to read my gently-worded note.
https://github.com/cowboy/dotfiles
https://github.com/jfrazelle/dotfiles
https://github.com/gf3/dotfiles
https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles
(and 15+ years of accumulated crap)