P

P is a minimal project automator for Bash and Zsh. It was inspired by prm, an awesome project of Eivind Arvesen. While I'm still thinking that prm is very good, I was looking for a project manager with a different logic and more simple. During the day, I switch between projects constantly, losing a lot of time. Sometimes I need to start some common tasks (launch Vim, start Gulp and so on), but often I only need to open the project with my editor.

That's why I have created P.

How it works

When you run P, you run the script associated to your project. You can open a new shell window, start a task runner or run a command. It's up to you. P creates this script with only one variable, PROJECT_PATH, the path of your project.

Example:

# cd to your project directory
cd $PROJECT_PATH

# run Gulp
gulp

Installation

Clone this repository:

git clone https://github.com/benitolopez/p.git

Then add something like this in your .bashrc:

. /path/to/p.sh

And ensure the script is executable

chmod +x /path/to/p.sh

Usage

Usage: p <option>

    Options:
	<project name>           Run project(s) configuration script.
    add <project name>       Add project.
    list                     List all projects.
    delete <project name>    Delete project(s).
    o <project name>         Open project(s) with the default editor.
	g <project name>         Go to the project directory.
    edit <project name>      Edit project(s).
	rename <old> <new>       Rename project.
    -h --help                Display this information.
    -v --version             Display version info.

So, to add a project just run p add <project name> from the root of your project. This creates a <project name>.sh file in ~/.projects/. Then you can run that script with p <project name>.

You can run multiple projects at once with:

p <project1 name> <project2 name> <project3 name>

But sometimes you only need a quick way to open a project with your default editor. In this case, just run (multiple projects allowed):

p o <project name>

And to go the project directory run:

p g <project name>

Options

You can modify some defaults exporting these environment variables:

_P_CMD           # the P command, default 'p'
_P_DIR           # projects directory where the scripts are saved
                   default '~/.projects'
_P_OPEN_FUNC     # function used to open the project with 
                   your default editor, default '$EDITOR .'

License

MIT Copyright (c) 2016 Benito Lopez