zippy

A bash script for extracting zipfile submissions to the Google Assignments LMS app, although it could trivially be modified to work with Google Classroom instead since they both interact with Google Drive in the same way.

Prerequisite

You will want to make sure that Google Drive is mounted in some way. On Windows or MacOS, you can just use Google Drive File Stream or Google Drive Backup and Sync. Google doesn't provide solutions like this for Linux, so you'll have to use something like google-drive-ocamlfuse for that.

Installation

This project uses a submodule, so if you want to clone it, you'll have to add the --recursive option to your command. Otherwise, the scripts in the submodule will not be cloned and you won't be able to invoke zippy.

git clone --recursive git://github.com/drwhattheheck/zippy.git

Usage

Currently, zippy is just a wrapper around the ziptools submodule that makes assumptions about the path to Google Drive and looks for files in multiple subdirectories.

usage: zippy <subcommand> <LabID>
subcommands:
    canvass <LabID>
    collect <LabID>

For help with a a subcommand, run:
zippy <subcommand> -h|--help

Future

A couple of things could be done to make the script a bit more useful:

1. Adding another subcommand reformats the submission in the following ways:
   • running chmod u+r on all of the extracted sources
   • removing any extracted binaries (sometimes these are old and the sources doesn't actually compile)
2. Adding another subcommand that sends the submissions to MOSS.

Both of these could also be added as options to the collect subcommand.