This script to create a well-structured project directory is inspired by this article (http://arxiv.org/abs/1609.00037), which can also by found on github.
bash newProject.sh projectName
The tree structure would be like this:
projectName
|-- README.md
|-- data
| -- raw_data
|-- doc
| -- documents_of_source_code
| -- manuscripts
| -- lab_notebooks
|-- results
| -- intermediate_results
| -- cleaned_data_sets
| -- figures
| [-- paper1]
| [-- paper2]
| -- tables
| [-- paper1]
| [-- paper2]
|-- src
| -- runAll.sh (controller)
| -- scripts.py (analysis)
| -- program.cpp