diff --git a/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/bin/scrapy-admin.py b/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/bin/scrapy-admin.py
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-#!/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", os.path.join("conf", "sites"), "commands", "templates"]:
-                    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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