A script to create new scientific project directory

This script to create a well-structured project directory is inspired by this article (http://arxiv.org/abs/1609.00037), which can also by found on github.

Usage

bash newProject.sh projectName

The tree structure would be like this:

projectName
|-- README.md
|-- data
|   -- raw_data
|-- doc
|   -- documents_of_source_code
|   -- manuscripts
|   -- lab_notebooks
|-- results
|   -- intermediate_results
|   -- cleaned_data_sets
|   -- figures
|       [-- paper1]
|       [-- paper2]
|   -- tables
|       [-- paper1]
|       [-- paper2]
|-- src
|   -- runAll.sh (controller)
|   -- scripts.py (analysis)
|   -- program.cpp