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@@ -102,18 +102,18 @@ GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON aura_engine.* TO 'aura'@'localhost';
 
 Log into your phpmyadmin or adminer with correct privileges, create a database and a user for the aura engine.
 
-#### Files and Folders
+#### Project initialization
 
-* Create the audio folder defined in your engine.ini
+Run
 
 ```bash
-mkdir /var/audio
-mkdir /etc/aura
-cp {where you cloned the repo}/configuration/engine.ini /etc/aura/engine.ini
-edit engine.ini to your needs
+  sh init.sh
 ```
 
-* Edit settings in engine.ini. Take your time for that.
+This creates the folder ***/var/audio** and copies some default configuration
+to ***/etc/aura/engine.ini**
+
+After that, you have to edit the settings in /etc/aura/engine.ini. Take your time for that.
 
 #### aura.py
 
diff --git a/init.sh b/init.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1b2c4304d00a05a13a1deac46245320a5c9a5b4d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/init.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+sudo mkdir /var/audio
+echo /var/audio created.
+sudo mkdir /etc/aura
+echo /etc/aura created.
+sudo cp ./configuration/engine.ini /etc/aura/engine.ini
+echo configuration copied to /etc/aura/engine.ini
+echo
+echo AuRa Engine initialization done!
+echo --------------------
+echo Before moving on edit /etc/aura/engine.ini to your needs