Shell script to generate .xcworkspace with all .xcodeproj in the current directory

generate_xcworkspace.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash

set -eo pipefail

# Prepare the workspace in the TEMP directory
NAME="Temp.xcworkspace"
DATA_FILE="contents.xcworkspacedata"
TEMP_DIR=$(mktemp -d)
mkdir "${TEMP_DIR}/${NAME}"
touch "${TEMP_DIR}/${NAME}/${DATA_FILE}"

echo "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?><Workspace version = \"1.0\">" >> "${TEMP_DIR}/${NAME}/${DATA_FILE}"

# Find all .xcodeproj and include them to the .xcworkspace we generate
find . \
    -name "*.xcodeproj" -type d \
    -exec echo "<FileRef location = \"container:{}\"></FileRef>" ';' \
    >> "${TEMP_DIR}/${NAME}/${DATA_FILE}"

echo "</Workspace>" >> "${TEMP_DIR}/${NAME}/${DATA_FILE}"

# Remove existed .xcworkspace
rm -Rf "$NAME"
# Copy the new one from the TEMP to the current directory
cp -r "${TEMP_DIR}/${NAME}" .

printf "Generated %s.\n" "$NAME"

Generate .xcworkspace with .xcodeproj in the current directory

Can be useful for automation, etc. The idea is straight forward:

1. Find all the .xcodeproj in the current directory (recursively)
2. Generate the .xcworkspace
3. Include all the .xcodeproj files to the .xcworkspace
4. Copy the .xcworkspace directory from the Temp directory to the current one

A few caveats:

• There will be problems if you have projects with the same name and there will be more than one .xcodeproj with the same name included (most probably, compilation will fail)
• Use -not -path "PATH" to exclude any directory from the find