commit 15169311c502349645c62e8b2961ee8eab25a48e
from: Sylvain Saboua <sylvain@saboua.me>
date: Thu Jan 15 18:44:51 2026 UTC

add options and refactor (macOS/zsh)

commit - 22158a1d7c0529bdf391f4bf99a930dc6145819d
commit + 15169311c502349645c62e8b2961ee8eab25a48e
blob - 033632179f42858930bec935d5f26b75646d1c61
blob + c65b07d9eebb9a884306d10e4972ceb7a235685c
--- nwpg.sh
+++ nwpg.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/bin/sh
+#!/bin/zsh
 
 #		nwpg (NeW ProGram)
 #	Simple script that initiates a new project
@@ -8,41 +8,79 @@
 #	the algorithm, the code, the documentation,
 #	i.e. main.algo, main.c, main.doc 
 #
-#	syntax: nwpg [language] project_title
+#	syntax: nwpg [-h] [-d directory] [-l language] project_title
+#	see EOF for TODO
 
+DEFAULT_DIR="$HOME/hack/" ;
+DEFAULT_LANG="C" ;
+USAGE="usage: nwpg [-h] [-l language] [-d directory] project_title" ;
+
 case $# in
-	0)
-		echo "Usage: nwpg [language] project_title" ;
-		error=1 ;;
 	1)
-		project_title="$1" ;;
-	2)
-		project_title="$2" ;
-		case $1 in 
-			C | c )
-				file_ext="c" ;;
-			Python | Py | py )
-				file_ext="py" ;;
-			Rust )
-				file_ext=""
-				echo "Rust project" ;;
-			* )
-				file_ext="" ;;
+		if [ $1 == '-h' ] || [ $1 == '--help' ]
+		then
+			 error=1
+		fi
+		language="$DEFAULT_LANG" ;
+		project_title="$1" ;
+		directory="$DEFAULT_DIR$project_title" ;;
+	3 | 5)
+		#which_shell= ps -p $$ | awk '{if(NR>1)print}' | awk '$0=$NF' | tr -d - ;
+		#echo $which_shell ;
+		#case $which_shell in
+		#	"zsh" )
+		#		echo "using zsh" ;
+		project_title="${@[-1]}" ;
+		#	"ksh" | "bash" )
+		#		echo "using ksh or bash" ;
+		#		project_title="$!#" ;#;
+		#esac	
+		#echo "Project title: $project_title" ;
+		case $1 in
+			-l )
+				language="$2" ;
+				directory="$DEFAULT_DIR$project_title" ;;
+			-d )
+				language="$DEFAULT_LANG" ;
+				directory="$2/$project_title" ;;
+		esac
+		case $3 in
+			-l )
+				language="$4" ;;
+			-d )
+				directory="$4/$project_title" ;;
 		esac ;;
 	*)
-		echo "Too many arguments" ;
 		error=1 ;;
 esac
 
 if [ -n $error ]
 then
-	mkdir -p $HOME/hack/$project_title ;
-	touch $HOME/hack/$project_title/main.{$file_ext,doc,algo} ;
+	mkdir -p $directory ;
+	#echo "Arguments:\n\t\$1 $1\n\t\$2 $2\n\t\$3 $3" ;
+	case $language in 
+		C | c )
+			#echo "programming in C" ;
+			file_ext="c" ;;
+		Python | Py | py )
+			file_ext="py" ;;
+		Rust )
+			#echo "Rust project" ;
+			file_ext="" ;;
+		* )
+			file_ext="" ;
+			echo $USAGE ;;
+		esac
+	touch $directory/main.{$file_ext,doc,algo} ; #&& echo "files created : $directory/main.{$file_ext,doc,algo}" ;
+else
+	echo $USAGE ;
 fi
 
 #
 #		TODO
-#	Add help displayed using -h
-#	or when no argument is provided
 #
+#	Use getopts for a cleaner ksh script
+#	Separate linux, macos and openbsd versions
+#	Clean commented debugging features
+#