Quickly build .gitignoreWorks with https://github.com/github/gitignore

gitignores.bash

#!/bin/bash

repo_url="https://github.com/github/gitignore"
default_source=$HOME/gitignores

IFS=$'\n'

if [[ $# == 0 ]]
then
    echo "Usage Example : "
    echo " mkdir MyNewProject"
    echo " cd MyNewProject"
    echo " git init"
    echo " gitignore.sh Java Maven Intellij Eclipse Emacs vim OSX Linux Windows >> .gitignore"
    echo " git add .gitignore; git commit -m \"Import gitignores\""
    exit 1
fi

if [[ -z "$GITIGNORES" ]]
then
    echo 'GITIGNORES not defined, defaulting to ' $default_source >&2
    source="$default_source"
else
    source="$GITIGNORES"
fi

if [[ ! -e "$source" ]]
then
    echo "$source not found... please set GITIGNORES to a directory containing gitignore files."
    echo "These files should end in .gitignore, and can be in subfolders."
    exit 1
fi

for arg in "$@"
do
    for file in $( find "$source" -iname "$arg"*.gitignore )
    do
        echo
        echo "### $arg ( $repo_url ) "
        echo
        cat "$file"
        echo
    done
done