diff --git a/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/bin/scrapy-admin.py b/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/bin/scrapy-admin.py
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..daa731ecf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/bin/scrapy-admin.py
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+"""Scrapy admin script"""
+
+import os, stat
+from optparse import OptionParser
+
+import scrapy
+
+usage = """
+Usage: scrapy-admin.py [options] [command]
+ 
+Available commands:
+     
+    startproject <project_name>
+      Starts a new project with name 'project_name'
+"""
+
+def main():
+    parser = OptionParser(usage = usage)
+    opts, args = parser.parse_args()
+    
+    if args:
+        if args[0] == "startproject":
+            
+            try:
+                project_name = args[1]
+                
+            except IndexError:
+                parser.print_help()
+            else:
+                os.mkdir(project_name)
+                os.mknod(os.path.join(project_name, "__init__.py"))
+                
+                for subdir in ["spiders", "conf", "commands"]:
+                    os.mkdir(os.path.join(project_name, subdir))
+                    os.mknod(os.path.join(project_name, subdir, "__init__.py"))
+                
+                settings_template = open(os.path.join(scrapy.__path__[0], "templates", "settings.tmpl"), "r").read()
+                settings = settings_template.replace("__project_name__", project_name)
+                open(os.path.join(project_name, "conf", "scrapy_settings.py"), "w").write(settings)
+                
+                control_template = open(os.path.join(scrapy.__path__[0], "templates", "scrapy-ctl.tmpl"), "r").read()
+                control = control_template.replace("__project_name__", project_name)
+                open(os.path.join(project_name, "scrapy-ctl.py"), "w").write(control)
+                os.chmod(os.path.join(project_name, "scrapy-ctl.py"), stat.S_IRWXU)
+                
+            return
+    parser.print_help()
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    main()
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diff --git a/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/templates/scrapy-ctl.tmpl b/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/templates/scrapy-ctl.tmpl
index 605ed892d..3eea158d3 100644
--- a/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/templates/scrapy-ctl.tmpl
+++ b/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/templates/scrapy-ctl.tmpl
@@ -8,17 +8,17 @@ sys.modules['chardet'] = None
 # to avoid (write) permission problems with images, cache, etc
 #os.umask(0002)
 
-SCRAPING_TRUNK = os.environ.get('SCRAPING_TRUNK', os.environ.get('PWD/..')).split(":")
+SCRAPING_TRUNK = os.environ.get('SCRAPING_TRUNK', os.environ.get('PWD') + '/..')
 
 try:
     import __project_name__
 except:
-    sys.path.extend(SCRAPING_TRUNK)
+    sys.path.append(SCRAPING_TRUNK)
 
 try:
     import scrapy_settings
 except:
-    sys.path.extend(['%s/__project_name__/conf' % spath for spath in SCRAPING_TRUNK])
+    sys.path.append('%s/__project_name__/conf' % SCRAPING_TRUNK)
 
 from scrapy.command.cmdline import execute
 execute()
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