A simple script to provide multiple profiles for your maven settings at {user.home}/.m2/settings.xml. See description in the python file below for details.

settings-xml.py

description = """A simple script to provide multiple profiles for your maven settings at {user.home}/.m2/settings.xml.
With the folder structure like below, profile [home] and [work] will be available be used.
{user.home}/.m2/profile
 |-home
 | |-settings.xml
 |-work
 | |-settings.xml
"""

import argparse, os, shutil
from argparse import RawTextHelpFormatter

parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=description, formatter_class=RawTextHelpFormatter)
parser.add_argument('profile')
args = parser.parse_args()

settings_home = os.path.join(os.environ['HOME'], ".m2") 
os.chdir(settings_home)

profile_dir = "profile"

# Creates sample profile folder if not exist yet
if not os.path.exists(profile_dir):
  print('First time running the script. Creating "home" and "work" profile directory at {}'.format(
    os.path.abspath(profile_dir)))
  os.makedirs(os.path.join(profile_dir, "home"))
  os.makedirs(os.path.join(profile_dir, "work"))

# Proceed with profile copying
profile_settings = os.path.join(profile_dir, args.profile, "settings.xml")
if os.path.exists(profile_settings):
  print("Switching [{}] to [{}]".format(os.path.abspath("settings.xml"), args.profile))
  shutil.copyfile(profile_settings, "settings.xml")
else:
  print("Profile [{}] doesn't exist.".format(args.profile))
  print("The profile settings should be located here: [{}]".format(os.path.abspath(profile_settings)))