Bash Case Statement with Examples | Linux Today

Bash Case Statement with Examples

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Jun 17, 2019

Bash case statements can be used to replace multi-level if??? else statement. You can use the case statement to match one variable against several values. The bash case statement is similar to switch statement in C programming but bash switch statement does not go ahead one it’s found.

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