Create new shell project

mkpr.sh

#!/bin/bash -

# SCRIPT: mkpr
# AUTHOR: Luciano D. Cecere
# YEAR: 2016
# PURPOSE: This script creates a new shell project with common directories and files included.
# USAGE: mkpr project-name version
# NOTE: If a version number is not specified, 0.0.1 is used by default.

PROGRAM="${0##*/}"

PROJECT=$(echo "$1" | tr A-Z a-z | tr ' ' '_')
if [ "x$PROJECT" = "x" ]; then
  echo "usage: $PROGRAM project-name version"
  exit 1
fi

VERSION="${2:-0.0.1}"
PROJECT="${PROJECT}-${VERSION}"

if [ -d "$PROJECT" ]; then
  echo "$PROJECT already exists"
  exit 1
fi

EXE="${PROJECT}/bin/${PROJECT%-*}.sh"

mkdir -p "$PROJECT"/{bin,src,lib,scripts,test,man} && {
  touch "${PROJECT}"/COPYING
  touch "${PROJECT}"/README.md
  echo "## README for ${PROJECT}" > "${PROJECT}"/README
  touch "${PROJECT}"/TODO
  echo "#!/bin/bash" >> "$EXE"
  echo "# This file is a part of ${PROJECT%-*}" >> "$EXE"
  chmod +x "$EXE"
  cat /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2 > "${PROJECT}"/COPYING
} || {
  echo "You do not have permission to create files on this system."
  exit 1
}

echo "${PWD}/${PROJECT}" created