Bootstrap config dirs on first run with setup message

Script now creates ~/.config/dot-backup/ and ~/.local/share/dot-backup/
on first run and prints a summary with next steps. README updated.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/dot-backup.sh b/dot-backup.sh
index 6813b14..dd40f25 100755
--- a/dot-backup.sh
+++ b/dot-backup.sh
@@ -30,6 +30,14 @@ LOG_FILE="${HOME}/.local/share/dot-backup/backup.log"
 DOTFILES_LIST="${HOME}/.config/dot-backup/files.list"
 CONFIG_FILE="${HOME}/.config/dot-backup/config"
 
+# Bootstrap config and log directories on first run
+FIRST_RUN=false
+if [[ ! -d "$(dirname "$CONFIG_FILE")" ]]; then
+    FIRST_RUN=true
+fi
+mkdir -p "$(dirname "$CONFIG_FILE")"
+mkdir -p "$(dirname "$LOG_FILE")"
+
 # Load config file if present
 if [[ -f "$CONFIG_FILE" ]]; then
     # shellcheck source=/dev/null
@@ -64,7 +72,6 @@ for arg in "$@"; do
 done
 
 if [[ "$QUIET" == true ]]; then
-    mkdir -p "$(dirname "$LOG_FILE")"
     # save original stdout so we can notify user after redirect
     exec 3>&1
     # strip color codes and write to log
@@ -264,6 +271,16 @@ do_restore() {
 
 clear
 
+if [[ "$FIRST_RUN" == true ]]; then
+    echo -e "${GREEN}First run — config directories created:${NC}"
+    echo -e "  ${BLUE}$(dirname "$CONFIG_FILE")${NC}  — drop config and files.list here"
+    echo -e "  ${BLUE}$(dirname "$LOG_FILE")${NC}  — logs written here when using -q"
+    echo -e "\nOptional next steps:"
+    echo -e "  cp config.example ${CONFIG_FILE}"
+    echo -e "  touch ${DOTFILES_LIST}"
+    echo -e "\nProceeding with backup using built-in defaults...\n"
+fi
+
 if [[ "$DRY_RUN" == true ]]; then
     echo -e "${YELLOW}*** DRY RUN — no files will be copied ***${NC}\n"
 fi