bootstrap.sh

Bootstrap a fresh Mac quicker than the time it takes to make a cuppa.

Features

• ⚡ Nothing to install — one curl and bootstrap is on your $PATH. No Go toolchain, no faff.
• 🍺 Homebrew on autopilot — grabs Homebrew if it's missing, then pours every package from your Brewfile.
• 🔗 Dotfiles that write home — your configs symlink out of the repo, so tweak one and it lands straight back in git. Commit, push, done.
• 💻 A Mac that feels like yours — bends a fresh machine's settings to your will in a single job.
• 🔄 Ages like fine wine — update grabs the newest binary, sync pulls the latest changes.
• 👀 No nasty surprises — --dry-run shows you exactly what'll happen before anything changes.

Install

On a fresh Mac, with nothing but curl:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nednella/bootstrap.sh/main/bootstrap.sh | bash

Usage

bootstrap             # show help and all available commands
bootstrap dotfiles    # symlink dotfiles into $HOME / XDG_CONFIG_HOME
bootstrap install     # install packages via Brewfile
bootstrap macos       # apply macOS preferences
bootstrap sync        # pull the latest content from the repo
bootstrap update      # update the binary to the latest release

-d, --dry-run         # preview any command without changing anything
-h, --help            # show help for any command
-v, --version         # print the version

Build

The Go module lives in cli/:

make build         # → bin/bootstrap (version stamped from git)
make install-dev   # build + install a `dev` binary to /usr/local/bin
make uninstall-dev # remove the local install