Copy-pasta FU for managing files and such

between.zsh

between {
  if [ $# -lt 1 ]; then
    cat <<'USAGE'
  usage: between START END

    Print input from `stdin` that appears between `START`
    and `END` markers, as long as they appear on a single
    line.

    EXAMPLE

    $> between.zsh | between USAGE EXAMPLE
      usage: between START END

        Print input from `stdin` that appears between `START`
        and `END` markers, as long as they appear on a single
        line.
USAGE;

    return 1
  fi
  if [ $# -gt 1 ]; then
    gawk "/${1}/{keep=1}/${2}/{keep=0} keep"
  else
    gawk "/${1}/{keep=1}keep"
  fi
}

copy-pasta

#!/usr/bin/env zsh

## TODO: find out if there's a better way to do this...
function _error {
  echo 'error: ' $1 >&2
}

function _usage {
  cat <<'USAGE'
usage: copy-pasta XX--Assignment-Name

  Create a `README.md` file in `XX--Assignment-Name/` copying the contents of
  `.template/ASSIGNMENT.md` or the file named by the environment variable `$TEMPLATE`,
  if it exists. Also make a branch in the current repo named similarly (lowercased)
  and add the `README.md` file to the index.
  
USAGE
}


if [[ $# -lt 1 ]]; then
  _error 'missing argument'
  _usage; exit 1
fi

git checkout -b $1:l \
  && ginstall -vCD .templates/${TEMPLATE:-'ASSIGNMENT.md'} $1/README.md \
  && git add $1 \
  && git status -s

# vim: ft=zsh

This cohort, I give my students a checklist inside of a Markdown code block with requirements:

* [ ] **Yak Shaving**
  * _WIP Issue_: `13 -- In the HTML of the Night`
  *  _WIP Branch_:
    * `USERNAME.github.io:journal-week-3`
    * `TIY-Assignments:13--html-of-the-night`
  * _WIP Files_:
    * `USERNAME.github.io`
      * `about/html.md`
      * `*.md` (reflective journal)
      * `*.md` (tutorial journal)
    * `student-roster`
      * `2015-05/FEE/TEMPLATE.md`
    * `TIY-Assignments`
      * `VerticalTimeline/`
        * `index.html`
        * `js/main.js`
        * `sass/main.scss`
        * `bower.json`
        * `package.json`
      * `MultiColumnForm/`
        * `index.html`
        * `js/main.js`
        * `sass/main.scss`
        * `bower.json`
        * `package.json`
. . .

...that they copy-pasta into their Issues. I also write up some fun checkpoints for each part of the assignment that they can check off as they go. In later weeks, I write up fewer and fewer checkbox and make them fill in "the plan".