OT: case statements in sh

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 05:40:52PM -0800, Bill Campbell wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 24, 2006, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> >On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 07:15:45PM -0500, Bob Stockler wrote:
> >> And if you really get techincal about it, the final ";;"
> >> is not required (thought it looks pretty there, and makes
> >> things "look better".
> >
> >It's not required by the interpreter.  But if you ever decide to
> >re-sort your case blocks, you'll discover that it's very handy indeed
> >to have around.  :-)
> 
> As a general rule, using a ``feature'' like that will always come
> back to bite you in the butt, and be hard to find.

You're talking about Bob's suggestion to skip the last terminator line,
then?  I confuse easily.  :-)

Cheers,
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