This might have what you're looking for, anyway it's a good starting point for a lot of commands to customize an OS X instance. https://github.com/mathiasbynens

This might have what you're looking for, anyway it's a good starting point for a lot of commands to customize an OS X instance. https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles Edit: AFAIK .DS_Store is only created when you use Finder. In the past couple of years I've only used the Finders to drag'n drop stuff between ~/Desktop and ~/Downloads, terminal for the rest, so .DS_Store files might not be a problem in practice. Edit2: Google helps answer your original question http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18015978/how-to-stop-creating-ds-store-on-mac http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18015978/how-to-stop-crea...