A study with Shell Script to rename and create dotfiles symlinks.

dotfiles.sh

#!/bin/bash

blacklisted () {
  blacklist=('LICENSE' 'README.md' 'dotfiles.sh')

  for ((i = 0; i < ${#blacklist[@]}; i++))
  do
    if [ $1 == ${blacklist[$i]} ]
    then
      return 0
    fi
  done

  return 1

  # Explanations for 0 and 1:
  # 1 == false
  # 0 == true
  #
  # Source: http://unix.stackexchange.com/a/232423
}

for file in *
do
  if [ -f $file ] && !(blacklisted $file)
  then
    filename=$file
    dot_filename=".$file"

    file_path="`pwd`/$filename"
    link_path="$HOME/$dot_filename"

    ln -s $file_path $link_path
  fi
done