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+# Dotfiles
+
+This folder is used to initialise my macs (hopefully with linux support again in the future)
+
+A quick copy/paste for setting up a computer is
+
+```bash
+mkdir -p ~/Documents/code/
+curl https://github.com/ZeroEcks/dotfiles/archive/refs/heads/main.zip -o ~/Documents/code/dotfiles.zip
+unzip ~/Documents/code/dotfiles.zip -d ~/Documents/code/dotfiles
+cd ~/Documents/code/dotfiles
+./init.sh
+```