Simple bash script to clone repository boilerplate repository and remove .git folder inside. Timesaver when creating new projects.

create-boilerplate.sh

#!/bin/sh

# Store the git repository url
REPOSITORY="git@github.com:marcuslilja/html5-boilerplate-grunt.git"

# Fetch all arguments
args=("$@")

# Count the number of arguments
number_of_arguments=${#args[@]}

# Check that number of arguments is not less than or equal to 0. If that
# is true, exit with status 1
if [ ${number_of_arguments} -le "0" ]
    then exit 1
fi

# Set the first argument to be the project name
PROJECT_NAME=${args[0]}

# Clone the repository to project folder
git clone ${REPOSITORY} ${PROJECT_NAME}

# Enter the project folder
cd ${PROJECT_NAME}

# Remove git folder
rm -rf .git