GNU Stow does the symlinking for you. https://www.gnu.org/software/stow/ https://www.gnu.org/software/stow/ What I do with different machines, (just OSX / Ubu

GNU Stow does the symlinking for you. https://www.gnu.org/software/stow/ https://www.gnu.org/software/stow/ What I do with different machines, (just OSX / Ubuntu atm) is a bash function to check which type of system I'm on and conditionally execute .profile / .bashrc code on that basis. Also I look for a .bashrc-local file and source it if present. That lets me add truly machine-local code.