A shell function that clones a github project into a directory of its account name.

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# clone a github project
function clone {
        # check arguments
        acc=${1%%/*}
        prj=${1##*/}

        if [ -z "$acc" -o -z "$prj" ] ; then
                echo 'usage: clone <github_account>/<project>'
                return 1
        fi

        # mkdir of the account name
        if [ ! -d "$acc" ] ; then
                mkdir $acc || return 1
        fi

        git clone https://github.com/$acc/$prj.git $acc/$prj
}