diff --git a/init.sh b/init.sh
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/init.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+BASENAME="${0##*/}"
+
+if [ x"$1" != x ]; then
+    CONFIG_PATH="$1"
+else
+    CONFIG_PATH="$HOME/config"
+fi
+
+for FILE in $CONFIG_PATH/*; do
+    DOTFILE=".${FILE##*/}"
+    if [ "$DOTFILE" = ".${BASENAME}" ]; then continue; fi
+    if [ -e "$DOTFILE" ]; then
+        mkdir original-dot-files >/dev/null 2>/dev/null
+        echo "Existing file found at $DOTFILE, moving to ~/original-dot-files."
+        mv "$DOTFILE" original-dot-files/
+    fi
+    ln -s "$FILE" "$DOTFILE"
+done