This is a quick-and-dirty utility to synchronise dotfiles and utilities to other machines

sync-dotfiles.sh

#!/bin/bash

hostname=$1

command=`basename $0`

if [ -z "${hostname}" ]; then
  echo Usage: ${command} hostname
  exit 1
fi

if [ ${hostname} == `hostname -s` ]; then
  echo Cannot sync to self
  exit 1
fi

for file in .bash_profile .bash_aliases .bash_prompt .bashrc \
  .forward \
  .emacs .emacs.d/ \
  .gitconfig \
  .inputrc \
  bin/
do

    if [ -e ${file} ]; then

        rsync --archive --partial --compress --cvs-exclude \
          ${file} ${hostname}:${file}

        if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
            echo Error synchronising ${file} - aborting >&2
            exit 1
        fi

    fi

done

exit 0