Control Commands
The Korn shell provides a number of control-flow commands typically found in high-level programming languages. The following sections cover these special commands.
The case Command
The case command provides multiple-branch capability. It is used to compare a single value against a number of other values. Commands associated with that value are executed when a match is made. The syntax for the case command is:
case value in pattern1) command command;; pattern2) command command;; . . . patternn) command command;; esac
where value is compared to pattern1, pattern2, ... patternn. When a match is found, the commands associated with that pattern up to the double semi-colons are executed.
The following Korn shell script demonstrates ...
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