diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -2,6 +2,14 @@
 _My personal collection of handy scripts. mostly bash._
 
 
+## setup_zsh
+
+One-line installer for zsh, oh-my-zsh and various zsh plugins.
+```
+curl -fsSL https://socialg.it/david/scripts/raw/master/setup_zsh.sh | bash
+```
+
+
 ## mc.sh
 
 A minecraft server hosting helper script.
@@ -19,4 +27,3 @@ usage: mc option <server>
     stop <server>        Stop server instance
     console <server>     Connect to server console
 ```
-
diff --git a/cisco_switchport_script b/cisco_snippets/cisco_switchport_script
similarity index 100%
rename from cisco_switchport_script
rename to cisco_snippets/cisco_switchport_script
diff --git a/setup_zsh.sh b/setup_zsh.sh
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index 0000000..3235311
--- /dev/null
+++ b/setup_zsh.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,121 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+#
+# download and setup zsh, oh-my-zsh and various zsh plugins
+#
+# author: david@socialnerds.org
+# license: MIT
+# git: https://socialg.it/david/scripts.git
+# version 0.1
+
+#  ****  vars  ****
+command="$0"
+root="$HOME/.dotfiles"
+plugins="$root/zsh"
+timestamp=$(date +"%Y%m%d%H%M")
+repo="https://socialg.it/david/dotfiles.git"
+dependencies="awk tee ls git wget curl rm mv sleep date"
+debug=1
+
+#  ****  functions  ****
+message() {
+  if [ $1 == "e" ]; then
+    level="\033[31m✗\033[0m"
+  elif [ $1 == "i" ]; then
+    level="\033[32m✓\033[0m"
+  elif [ $1 == "w" ]; then
+    level="\033[33m!\033[0m"
+  elif [ $1 == "d" ]; then
+    if [ $debug -eq 1 ]; then
+      level="\033[2md\033[0m"
+    else
+      return 0
+    fi
+  else
+    message e "Unknown message level[$1]."
+    return 1
+  fi
+  echo -e [$level] ${@:2}
+  sleep 0.1
+}
+
+failsafe() {
+  if [ $1 -ne 0 ]; then
+    message e "Installer died horribly!"
+    if [ $2 ]; then
+      message d "Dumping last output to stdout."
+      echo ${@:2}
+    fi
+    exit 1
+  fi
+}
+
+cleanup() {
+  # Get rid of preexisting data at destination
+  destination=$1
+  if [ -a "$destination.old" ]; then
+    message e "A previous backup exists. Move elsewhere or delete first[$destination.old]."
+    exit 1
+  else
+    if [ -h $destination ]; then
+      link=$(ls -la $destination | awk '{print $9" "$10" "$11}')
+      # It should be safe to just remove symbolic links because no data is actually deleted.
+      message d "Symbolic link exists, attempting to remove it[$link]."
+      output=$(rm $destination 2>&1); failsafe $? $output
+      message i "Removed symbolic link[$link]."
+    elif [ -a $destination ]; then
+      # Rename data to $destination.old
+      message d "Data exists at install destination, attempting to create a backup[$destination.old]."
+      output="", output=$(mv $destination $destination.old 2>&1); failsafe $? $output
+      message i "Created a backup of a preexisting data[$destination.old]."
+    fi
+  fi
+}
+
+
+#  ****  start of script  ****
+
+message d "Warming up installer."
+#message d "Initiating preflight checks."
+
+
+# check dependencies, fail with a list of missing
+
+# can i write to ~ and ~/.oh-my-zsh
+
+# remove everything in 5 seconds: ~/.dotfiles ~/.dotfiles.old ~/.myzsh ~/.oh-my-zsh ~/.zshrc
+message w "your old configs will be deleted in 5 seconds [terminate deletion with Ctrl-C]"
+sleep 5
+rm -rf $HOME/.dotfiles
+rm -rf $HOME/.dotfiles.old
+rm -rf $HOME/.myzsh
+rm -rf $HOME/.oh-my-zsh
+rm $HOME/.zshrc
+
+# invoke oh-my-zh installer
+sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/master/tools/install.sh)"
+message i "oh-my-zsh installed"
+
+# set $ZSH_THEME="" in .zshrc
+cat $HOME.zshrc | sed "s/^ZSH_THEME=\"robbyrussell\"/ZSH_THEME=\"\"/g" > $HOME/.zshrc
+message i "oh-my-zsh theme deactivated"
+
+# clone plugins
+cd $ZSH_CUSTOM/plugins/
+git clone https://github.com/sindresorhus/pure.git pure
+git clone https://github.com/mafredri/zsh-async.git async
+git clone https://socialg.it/david/zsh-david.git zsh-david
+git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting.git zsh-syntax-highlighting
+git clone https://github.com/skx/sysadmin-util.git sysadmin-util
+git clone https://github.com/TamCore/autoupdate-oh-my-zsh-plugins.git autoupdate
+git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions.git zsh-autosuggestions
+cd -
+message i "all plugins cloned"
+
+# set $plugins in .zshrc
+plugins=(git zsh-autosuggestions autoupdate sysadmin-util zsh-syntax-highlighting zsh-david async pure)
+cat $HOME/.zshrc | sed "/plugins=(/,/)/d; s/source \$ZSH\/oh-my-zsh.sh/plugins=($plugins); source \$ZSH\/oh-my-zsh.sh/g" | sed $'s/; /\\\n/g' > $HOME/.zshrc
+message i "activated zsh plugins [$plugins]"
+
+message d "Installer finished."
+
+#  ****  end of script  ****