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To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (1022289)6/22/2017 2:11:03 PM
From: d[-_-]b  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1572711
 
for and case are not abstractions and greatly simplfy your script -

Here is what I mean for those two sections that appear nearly identical.

Create the LINK's as needed.

for LINK in gdarg_w gdarg_t gdarg_d gdarg_pro01 gdarg_pro02 gdarg_pro03 gdarg_pro04
do
[ ! -L /usr/local/bin/$LINK ] && ln -s /usr/local/bin/dgoogle /usr/local/bin/$LINK
done

Launch using the validated commands

case $command in
gdarg_w | gdarg_t | gdarg_d | gdarg_pro01 | gdarg_pro02 | gdarg_pro03 | gdarg_pro04 )
google-chrome-stable --user-data-dir="/home/$user/.config/google-chrome/$command" &
esac