OT: case statements in sh

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 09:50:00PM -0500, Kenneth Brody wrote:
> My copy of bash 1.14.7(1) won't allow the above syntax.  It requires ";;"
> between each case.
> 
> ==========
> case "$1" in
>   1) echo one
>   2) echo two
>   3) echo three
>   *) echo default
> esac
> ==========
> /tmp/foo.sh: syntax error near unexpected token `2)'
> /tmp/foo.sh: /tmp/foo.sh: line 3: `  2) echo two'
> ==========

I'm wrong; you win; shut up.  ;-)

Apparently you cannot implement Duff's Device in bash, which is kind of
ironic, since in my googling, I discovered that apparently *bash* uses
it, internally.

Cheers,
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