How to modify dock icons to execute additional commands?

I'd like to always start Google Chrome in Incognito mode. In Ubuntu, I'd just modify the Google Chrome shortcut and append "--incognito" at the end. With Windows, I'd just append "-incognito" to the shortcut, and both of these solutions worked for these operating systems...
Can someone tell me how to do this for the dock icon in Mountain Lion?

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You could wrap it up in an Automator Application with a Run Shell Script action, or just make it a shell script and make it executable by using the command extension. Copy the following into a Text Editor and save it as text with .command as the suffix.
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An Automator application would be less obtrusive as it won't open Terminal first.

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