init

Initializes a new computer for standard developer tasks. To install, simply run one of the scripts in alias from inside the init directory.

Note: On Windows, all scripts must be run as administrator.

Installed Tools

After initialization, your system should have the following tools available, whether or not they already existed:

Shell Productivity [INIT_CLI]

• Bash, configured with a descriptive prompt, several useful aliases, and a shellrc.d directory for addition alias files [INIT_CLI_SHELL]
• Git, configured with your name/email, sane defaults, fancy diffs, and a global .gitignore [INIT_CLI_GIT]
• SSH, with a public+private key for your email address [INIT_CLI_SSH]
• Tmux [INIT_CLI_TMUX]

Programming languages [INIT_LANG]

• Python 2 [INIT_LANG_PYTHON]
• Java [INIT_LANG_JAVA]
• NodeJS via NVM [INIT_LANG_NODEJS]
• Ruby via RBENV [INIT_LANG_RUBY]
• Scala [INIT_LANG_SCALA]

GUI applications [INIT_GUI]

• A multi-clipboard [INIT_GUI_MULTICLIPBOARD]
• Visual Studio Code, configured to be as unobtrusive as possible [INIT_GUI_VSCODE]
• Google Chrome [INIT_GUI_CHROME]
• Mozilla Firefox [INIT_GUI_FIREFOX]
• VLC Media Player [INIT_GUI_VLC]
• Sublime Merge [INIT_GUI_SMERGE]
• LibreOffice [INIT_GUI_LIBREOFFICE]

Options

The following environment variables will affect the installation:

• INIT_REPO=[path to init repository]; Default: $(dirname "$0") - Controls where the scripts in this repository are located. May be required if invoked in some unusual situations.
• INIT_FORUSER=[ALL|CURRENT|ROOT]; Default: ALL - Controls whether to install things for the entire system or just for the current user. Note that user-specific components are always installed only for the current user. Note: To install only for the root user, you must specify INIT_FORUSER=ROOT and run as root.
• INIT_GITNAME="name"; Default: $(git config --global user.name) if exists, otherwise $(id -un) - Controls the configured username for Git.
• INIT_GITEMAIL="address@domain"; Default: $(git config --global user.email) if exists, otherwise $(read -p) - Controls the configured email address for Git and SSH keys.
• INIT_SSHCOPY=[GITHUB|OFF]; Default: GITHUB - Wait for you to copy your public key to certain accounts; set to OFF to not even bother.

Most components do not install by default. You must specify which components you want to install. There are a few methods available:

1. To install all components, set INIT_ALL=ON before running. Then you can disable specific categories of components or individual components by setting their associated environment variables to OFF.
2. You can also enable individual categories of components, by setting their associated environment variable to ON before running. Then you can disable specific components within that category by setting their associated environment variables to OFF.
3. You can also enable just the specific components you want by setting their associated environment variable to ON before running.

The following environment variables will be used for the installation and their current value will be saved for future shells:

• BENCH="path"; Default: $HOME/bench - This script creates and adds things into this directory to avoid cluttering $HOME.
• HOME="path"; Default: ~$USER - The installing user's "home" directory; persisted for consistency in environments (like Windows) that don't already track this.
• NVM_DIR="path"; Default: $BENCH/lib/nvm - The NVM (NodeJS version manager) location.
• RBENV_DIR="path"; Default: $BENCH/lib/rbenv - The RBENV (Ruby version switcher) location.

See the alias directory for example installation profiles.

Unattended Installation

In order to run unattended, ensure the following:

• Ensure your shell has administrative access by running sudo -v (except Windows)
• Set the INIT_USEREMAIL environment variable
• Set the INIT_SSHCOPY environment variable to OFF

Supported Systems

• Windows 7, 10
• OS X 10.11+

Contributing

To pull local changes to certain copied files back into this project, run update.sh.