macOS Setup Scripts

Scripts for setting up & maintaining a consistent macOS environment with desired apps & packages.

Files

• brew-installs.sh: Script to install casks & packages from Homebrew. Designed to be run many times as things are added or removed. Also does optional updating & cleanup tasks.
• casks.sh & packages.sh: lists of Homebrew casks & packages to install via brew-installs.sh.
• first-time.sh: Script intended for initialization after ./brew-installs.sh has been run once. Designed to only be run once.

Usage

When using for first time, run:

> ./brew-installs.sh
> ./first-time.sh

Afterwards, simply run:

> ./brew-installs.sh

TODOs

• Consider creating script that compares list of casks to install in brew-installs.sh to list of applications in /Applications & outputs diff to console output. Use case here is to very quickly check what apps are managed via brew, & which aren't (can create some sort of "ignore" list to not print out obviously non-brew apps, e.g. "App Store", "Calculator", "Messages"), which might be useful when bootstrapping new machine.
• Revisit the need for first-time.sh. Specifically, seems like a convoluted use-case given that brew-installs.sh is something that is continually updated & re-ran as packages are added.
• Figure out how to add other parts of jekyll installation in first-time.sh, e.g. running gem install jekyll automatically, figuring out if sudo is needed, etc.
  • Also, per this & this, it appears that I need to run gem install webrick to get everything working.
  • Also note that if gems were installed accidentally before running source ~/.zshrc (i.e. installed for old ruby version), then they need to be deleted to avoid some errors. Did this by running rm -rf ~/.gem/ruby/2.6.0.
• Consider adding pip installs into this directory.
• Automate the creation of ~/iCloudDrive symlink: ln -s ~/Library/Mobile\ Documents/com\~apple\~CloudDocs ~/iCloudDrive