Automating Our Workstation Setup

Throughout this course, we’ve created a customized environment. We’ve installed some tools on our machine, created some directories, and wrote some configuration files. Once we get something just how we like it, we might want to keep it that way. We can create a script that’ll set things up for us. That way, when we get a new machine, we can run our script and have everything set up exactly how we want it.

Let’s create a script that does just that. We’ll install the handful of utilities we’ve installed throughout the course and create a ~/.bashrc file with some basic options. To keep this exercise short, the script ...