Created a shell script to create a number of categories

Author: convenient

scripts/abstract.php

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+<?php
+use \Magento\Framework\AppInterface as AppInterface;
+use \Magento\Framework\App\Http as Http;
+
+use Magento\Framework\ObjectManager\ConfigLoaderInterface;
+use Magento\Framework\App\Request\Http as RequestHttp;
+use Magento\Framework\App\Response\Http as ResponseHttp;
+use Magento\Framework\Event;
+use Magento\Framework\Filesystem;
+use Magento\Framework\App\AreaList as AreaList;
+use Magento\Framework\App\State as State;
+
+class AbstractApp implements AppInterface
+{
+    public function __construct(
+        \Magento\Framework\ObjectManagerInterface $objectManager,
+        Event\Manager $eventManager,
+        AreaList $areaList,
+        RequestHttp $request,
+        ResponseHttp $response,
+        ConfigLoaderInterface $configLoader,
+        State $state,
+        Filesystem $filesystem,
+        \Magento\Framework\Registry $registry
+    ) {
+        $this->_objectManager = $objectManager;
+        $this->_eventManager = $eventManager;
+        $this->_areaList = $areaList;
+        $this->_request = $request;
+        $this->_response = $response;
+        $this->_configLoader = $configLoader;
+        $this->_state = $state;
+        $this->_filesystem = $filesystem;
+        $this->registry = $registry;
+    }
+
+    public function launch()
+    {
+        return $this->_response;
+    }
+
+    public function catchException(\Magento\Framework\App\Bootstrap $bootstrap, \Exception $exception)
+    {
+        return false;
+    }
+}

scripts/create-categories.php

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+<?php
+require dirname(__FILE__) . '/../app/bootstrap.php';
+$bootstrap = \Magento\Framework\App\Bootstrap::create(BP, $_SERVER);
+require dirname(__FILE__) . '/abstract.php';
+
+class CreateCategoriesApp extends AbstractApp
+{
+
+    public function launch()
+    {
+        $this->_objectManager->get('Magento\Framework\Registry')
+            ->register('isSecureArea', true);
+
+        for ($i=0; $i<200; ++$i) {
+            $newCategoryName = 'Performance Category ' .$i;
+
+            /** @var Magento\Catalog\Model\Category\Interceptor $newCategory */
+            $newCategory = $this->_objectManager->create('\Magento\Catalog\Model\Category');
+            $existingCategory = $newCategory->loadByAttribute('name', $newCategoryName);
+
+            if (!$existingCategory) {
+                $newCategory->setData(
+                    array(
+                        'name' => $newCategoryName,
+                        'parent_id' => Magento\Catalog\Model\Category::TREE_ROOT_ID,
+                        'attribute_set_id' => $newCategory->getDefaultAttributeSetId(),
+                        'path' => Magento\Catalog\Model\Category::TREE_ROOT_ID,
+                    )
+                );
+                $newCategory->save();
+
+                echo "Created\t" . $newCategoryName . PHP_EOL;
+            } else {
+                $newCategory->delete();
+                echo "Deleting\t" . $newCategoryName . PHP_EOL;
+            }
+        }
+
+        return parent::launch();
+    }
+}
+
+/** @var \Magento\Framework\App\Http $app */
+$app = $bootstrap->createApplication('CreateCategoriesApp');
+$bootstrap->run($app);
+
+