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I love to play with bash script a lot. But I want to enhance the way I use bash script. I have a script(nepleaks.sh) as below used during my programming, 

~   1 clean(){                                                                                                                                                                  
~   2  lein clean                                                                                         
+   3  lein deps                                                                                          
+   4 }    
    5                                                                                                     
    6 runApp(){                                                                                           
    7   echo("[info] : make sure you've started neo4j.")                                                 
    8   #lein run -m nepleaks-engine.core  
    ............
   34         
   35 clean                                                                                              
   36 #runApp

When I need to clean my project, I have been commenting on runApp and vice-versa and then fire 

$./nepleaks

Now, I want to amend this to something like

$ nepleaks clean or $ nepleaks runApp

I didn't like idea of sourcing nepleaks.sh and then call clean or runApp.

Here's one of the lovely thing I used https://github.com/cosmin/s3-bash/blob/master/s3-get, I am looking into but their script looked complex to me. They support something as below, 

s3-get -k {accesskey} -s /{path}/{secretid} /{bucketname}
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Try this:

case "$1" in
  (clean) 
    clean
    exit 1
    ;;
  (runApp)
    runApp
    exit 0
    ;;
  (*)
    echo "Usage: $0 {clean|runApp}"
    exit 2
    ;;
esac

Now you can do:

$ ./nepleaks clean # only run clean
$ ./nepleaks runApp # only runApp
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Loads of Thanks for Cool script. What would be the case for 2 levels? I mean I sent $1 and $2 from terminal. I assume case inside case? –  Prayag Upd Jun 19 '14 at 6:39
    
Yes, you can do nested case. –  cuonglm Jun 19 '14 at 6:42
    
Ok, I will dry if I could do ./nepleaks runApp development or ./nepleaks runApp production etc. Anyways this is coolest script on earth. –  Prayag Upd Jun 19 '14 at 6:43
    
@PrayagUpd: Do you try another case with $2 in runApp)? –  cuonglm Jun 19 '14 at 6:56
1  
@PrayagUpd: You missed an ;; after nested case, line 17 in your gist. –  cuonglm Jun 19 '14 at 8:10
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$ cat <./nepleaks.sh && chmod +x ./nepleaks 
> #!/usr/bin/sh
>
> clean() { ... ; }
> runApp() { ... ; }
> 
> ${clean+clean}
> ${runApp+runApp}

...

$ env - clean= ./nepleaks.sh
# ^runs only clean()^ #
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