A script that allow to sync ollama models between computers. Useful for dotfiles backups

sync-models.sh

#!/bin/bash

# Create a list of existing Ollama models
existingModels=$(ollama list | awk '{if(NR>1) print $1}')

# Create a list of Ollama models to pull
models=(
  llama3:8b
  phi3:mini
  phi3:medium
  phi3:medium-128k
  aya:8b
  gemma:7b
)

contains_element() {
  local element
  for element in "${@:2}"; do
    if [[ "$element" == "$1" ]]; then
      return 0
    fi
  done
  return 1
}

for model in "${existingModels[@]}"; do
  if ! contains_element "$model" "${models[@]}"; then
    echo "Purging $model"
    ollama rm $model
  fi
done

# Install all new models
for model in ${models[@]}; do
  echo "Pulling model $model"
  ollama pull $model
done

Edit your models list, run chmod +x ./sync-models.sh and ./sync-models.sh to run the script.