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by pixiemagic 1096 days ago
Would you be able to share those scripts? Or if not, an obfuscated/abstracted version of them?

I use brew but even with brew and brew cask, I find there's plenty of GUI apps that require manual installation, which will also have their own config spread out in various places, plus whatever CLI or background stuff I've installed myself (mostly hidden files/directories in my home folder so probably easier), system settings, etc. I don't know how I'd reasonably automate a restore of all of that stuff without having a Time Machine-style backup (essentially a disk image).
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sandreas 1096 days ago
Unfortunatly, they contain too much sensitive information to provide them online and I don't have the time to make them nice and clean (it all started with a 50 lines bash script). But there are plenty of users providing macOS RICE / dotfiles...

Just a short search:

https://www.lotharschulz.info/2021/05/11/macos-setup-automat...

https://gist.github.com/bradp/bea76b16d3325f5c47d4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFlnqSqkTas

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pixiemagic 1094 days ago
Understandable, thanks for the links.
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