A simple linux script to simplifiy downloading github repos

gethub

#!/bin/bash

# Usage
# 
# run `gethub githubuser/repo`
# example `gethub github/markup`



pName=$1

githubdir="$(echo ~)/projects"
githubdirpath=($(echo $githubdir | tr "/" " "))
dircount=${#githubdirpath[@]}
midpath="/"

# Verify githubdir exists
for (( c=0; c<=$dircount; c++ ))
do
	# make dir if it doesn't exist
	if [ ! -d "$midpath${githubdirpath[$c]}" ]
	then
		mkdir "$midpath${githubdirpath[$c]}"
	fi
	midpath="$midpath${githubdirpath[$c]}/"
done
 

cd ~/projects

# Make sure there is a ".git" at the end of the url
if [ "${pName:$(expr ${#pName} - 4)}" != ".git" ]
then
	pName="$pName.git"
fi

path=($(echo $pName | tr "/" " "))

# Test if there is already a directory for the user
if [ ! -d "$githubdir/${path[0]}" ]
then
	# Make dir if none found
	echo "Creating user directory: $githubdir/${path[0]}"
	mkdir "$githubdir/${path[0]}"
fi

cd "$githubdir/${path[0]}"
git clone https://github.com/$pName