For when you have to do your C++ programming from the BASH environment in Linux

The code should be downloaded to the $HOME directory of your Linux machine.

The main script is called createProject.sh, and can be called from anywhere with sh $HOME/createProject.sh. When running the script, you will be asked for the directory that will house the C++ project. It is best to give an absolute path. The path can have $HOME in it. However, if you give relative path, it will be relative to the directory from which you called the script. For example, if you had directory structure like :

• Home
  • otherFolder
    • Project1
  • CPPFileCreator

and you, from Home/otherFolder called the script, any directory you specify will be subdirectory of otherFolder if you don't use absolute pathname.

The script then creates the directory, and any parent directories, if they don't exist, and calls a program that creates files for the project. main.cpp is created by default. You may specify any number of classes, enumerations, or main.cpp files you like.

Once complete, the script copies a script to call the file creator to the project directory, as well as a script for compiling and running your project. Those scripts are called fileCreator.sh,run.sh, respectively.

To create files for your project, go to the project directory and type sh fileCreator.sh. You should see the following menu:

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Simply enter the numbers corresponding to the things you wish to create and press ENTER, and the appropriate files will be generated.

1. This option generates a .cpp file and a .h file for the class name you specify, complete with the include guards.
2. This option generates a .h file for the enum, which also has include guards
3. Self-explanatory. If a main.cpp file already exists there, this option does nothing.
4. This feature doesn't exist right now.
5. Sets the directory to which the files are written
6. Exits