A simple bash case question...

Armin feng.shaun at gmail.com
Wed Sep 3 00:40:31 UTC 2008


On Tuesday 02 September 2008 14:40:10 Dan Thurman wrote:
> I am trying to figure out how to do the following:
>
> case $foo in
>
>     "one" || "two)
>        process_One_Two ;;
>     "three")
>        process_Three ;;
>     "four" || "five")
>        process_Four_Five ;;
>     *) echo "Nothing to process" ;;
> esac
>
> The problem I am having is getting "one" || "Two"
> or "four" || "five" to work - so as to consolidate
> two or more strings per case statement line,
> otherwise I would have code duplication.
>
> Any advice?
>
> Thanks!
> Dan
try:

case $foo in
	"one" | "two)
		processOneTwo;;
esac
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Armin
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