OT: sh Hicup

[Jeff Harrison]

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--- Doug Luurs <doug at borisch.com> wrote:

[Jeff Wrote]

> > Doug, have you considered using a case statement? 
> It
> > would make this much easier to read and debug.

> How case formatted .. I mean I thought case was a
> one per line deal, or
> can I put multi 'case's on a line ?
> 

You can have multi lines for each case.  Here is an
example:

echo enter a number:
read i
case $i in
1)      echo "one";;
2)      echo "one"
        echo "two";;
3)      echo "one"
        echo "two"
        echo "three";;
*)      echo "$i";;
esac

Jeff Harrison
jeffaharrison at yahoo.com

Author of JHExport and JHImport.  The easiest and
fastest ways to generate code for filePro exports and imports.

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