Building a Zen sub-theme: In shell commands

From the Zen documentation How to build your own sub-theme (6.x), translated into bash commands. The project is called example, and we have installed the zen theme to sites/default/themes.

Someone enterprising could make this into a simple bash script.

UPDATE: Someone did turn this into a bash script that was later incorporated into the docs. Here is a modified version of a more robust script that was posted to Jason Chinn's Magicsparks site:

zen_subtheme.sh (Zipped, as shell files cannot be accessed in Drupal's files directory!)

Run it from the root of your Drupal directory after making sure Zen 1.0 is in your sites/all/themes directory (drush dl zen will do that).

The command (substitute your new theme folder name, fixed for liquid if you want, theme title and description) is:

zen_subtheme.sh newthemename liquid "New theme title" "New theme description."

If you insist on doing it by hand, the commands to make it easy:

<code>
cd /sites/example/www/sites/default/themes
sudo cp -pr zen/STARTERKIT/ example_zen
cd example_zen/
sudo mv STARTERKIT.info example_zen.info
sudo vi example_zen.info

All right, the editing of the .info file will be hard to script. But all the rest should definitely be scriptified.

We're still in /sites/scfabout/www/sites/default/themes/example_zen and the Zen system of themes is next door.

Because fixed-width layout is evil we go straight for flexible (or as it's called here, liquid). Urgh, maybe on this project I should be using fixed with. OK, make this a variable in the script! Alternate line is cp -p ../zen/zen/layout-fixed.css layout.css

sudo cp -p ../zen/zen/layout-liquid.css layout.css
sudo cp -p ../zen/zen/print.css print.css
sudo cp -p ../zen/zen/zen.css example_zen.css

Then the next steps of editing template.php and theme-settings.php to replace "STARTERKIT" with your theme name ("example_zen" in this case) could be scripted also.

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