zsh function to control OSX Pomodoro app from shell

.zshrc

# use AppleScript to communicate with the Pomodoro application
function pom {
    case $1 in
        start)
            # if it weren't for the use of arg ranges here then this function would work in straight sh
            TASK=$*[2,-1]
            DURATION=25
            BREAK=5
            osascript -e "tell app \"Pomodoro\" to start \"${TASK}\" duration ${DURATION} break ${BREAK}"
            ;;
        stop)
            osascript -e "tell app \"Pomodoro\" to reset"
            ;;
        pause)
            osascript -e "tell app \"Pomodoro\" to external interrupt"
            ;;
        resume)
            osascript -e "tell app \"Pomodoro\" to resume"
            ;;
        *)
            echo "${0} {start task desc…|stop|pause|resume}"
    esac
}