Launch Chrome by Profile Name (Updated)

Now for my once a decade update... Chrome eliminated white space from the JSON format used to store profile preferences. This broke the simple file parsing of the previous script. This update switches to the jq command-line JSON parser to fix the parsing. Enjoy:

	#!/usr/bin/env bash
	if [[ $# -eq 0 ]]; then
	exec google-chrome &
	exit 0
	elif [[ $1 == "incognito" ]]; then
	exec google-chrome --incognito &
	exit 0
	else
	for preffile in ~/.config/google-chrome/{Default*,Profile*}/Preferences; do
	[[ -e "$preffile" ]] || continue;
	profname=$(jq ".profile.name" "$preffile")
	echo "Found profile $profname in $preffile."
	if [[ "$profname" == "\"$1\"" ]]; then
	shift
	profdir=$(echo "$preffile" | sed -e 's|^.*google-chrome/\([^/]*\)/Preferences$|\1|')
	echo "Going to launch profile $profname with profile directory $profdir."
	exec google-chrome --profile-directory="$profdir" "$@" &
	exit 0
	fi
	done
	echo "Profile with name $1 not found!"
	exit 1
	fi

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