Poor man's sbt template. Useful for quickly generating a throwaway sbt project when you just want to try something out.

sbtnew.sh

# stick this in your .bashrc/.zshrc
sbtnew() {
  local projectname=$1
  local sbtversion=${2:-1.2.8}
  local scalaversion=${3:-2.12.8}
  cd ~/code
  mkdir $projectname
  cd $projectname
  mkdir project
  echo "sbt.version=$sbtversion" > project/build.properties
  cat > build.sbt <<EOF
scalaVersion := "$scalaversion"
libraryDependencies ++= Seq(
  //"" %% "" % ""
)
EOF
  cat > project/plugins.sbt <<EOF
//addSbtPlugin("" %% "" % "")
EOF
}

# use this one if you want the latest versions of sbt and Scala (requires xmllint to be installed)
sbtlatest() {
  local projectname=$1
  local latestsbt=$(curl -s https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/scala-sbt/sbt/maven-metadata.xml | xmllint --xpath '/metadata/versioning/latest/text()' -)
  local latestscala=$(curl -s https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/scala-lang/scala-compiler/maven-metadata.xml | xmllint --xpath '/metadata/versioning/latest/text()' -)
  sbtnew "$projectname" "$latestsbt" "$latestscala"
}