Questions tagged [case]

Question 1

I want to know if there is another alternative in Bash to execute multiple blocks when the pattern matches. I don’t want to use another command, if statements, or two or more separate case blocks or ...

Question 2

I want something like this: time="1m" case "$time" in *h*) *m*) *s*) echo "handling several cases for h, m, s tokens" ;; *) echo "...

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case "$1","$name" in -py | --python | --python3,*) if [[ "$name" =~ \..+$ ]]; then That doesn't catch stuff, which actually it should, like… USERNAME@HOSTNAME:~$ ...

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I have a for loop and case statements. The for loop has quite a bit element list and the case statement will assign an 1D array or a vector. These values will be used in for loop after. I have the ...

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I am attempting to write a bash script that takes input from the keyboard and displays text depending on what number was entered: #!/bin/bash read -p "Enter your age: " AGE case $AGE in ...

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I just realized that in shell scripting esac, the closing statement for case is just case reversed. This may be a stupid question but does esac actually mean something (ie an abbreviation) or was it ...

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I have two arrays and want to print a value from ARRAY2 depending on the applicable value in ARRAY1. #!/usr/bin/env bash ARRAY1=(bb.service.sql bw.service.sql) ARRAY2=(bb bw) case $ARRAY1[@] in ${...

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I'm making a script for Docker environments, and I'm a bit stuck with a pigeonhole I've gotten myself into. #!/bin/bash set -euo pipefail # Variables gituser="modem7" gitrepo="docker-...

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I have made a simple backup program for my bin folder. It works. Code and resultant STDOUT below. Using rsync to copy from local ~/bin folder to a /media/username/code/bin folder. The code works fine ...

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I encountered such a problem when passing a parameter to a script, the function corresponding to the case menu is not executed. The script accepts parameters as input and performs the appropriate ...

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I wish to search for a string mongo and not starting with comment i.e # in a file. homedir=`ls -d ~` echo "$homedir" if [[ `cat $homedir/2_need_softwares.txt | grep -v '^#' | grep -iq ...

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I am writing a script which must accept a word from a limited predefined list as an argument. I also would like it to have completion. I'm storing list in a variable to avoid duplication between ...

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I'm trying to write a case statement where the variable argument does not match a test expression. In other words: case $db in [Some Code Here]) echo "Not a valid database type&...

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I want to know if there is any way to case on multiple variables at once, like this: #/bin/bash arr1=(1 2) arr2=(3 4) foo=1 bar=2 case $foo && $bar in ${arr1[@]}) echo "...

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I have a bash script where I want to set a case variable. For file1 there are two different NUMBER variables that I then I want to pass to a text file. I have tried the following: case $FILE in &...

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Questions tagged [case]

Can I execute multiple case blocks if the pattern matches?

How to specify several alternative conditions (OR operator) for single case statement? (Or Alternatively, where is shell case syntax description?) [duplicate]

How is the correct syntax for a more complex case statement?

For loop through a variable vector

Case Statement Not Working as Expected [duplicate]

Was `esac` intentionally `case` just in reverse? [duplicate]

bash script - printing a value of an array based on the value of another array

Bash - How to make dynamic menu selection without eval

Selecting from various media using awk shell script

getopt and case function not executing

if condition always false despite the condition being true upon manual execution

Bash, use case statement to check if the word is in the array

Bash : Case statement that doesn't match a given string

Case on multiple variables at once bash

Possible to match multiple conditions in one case statement and pass them as variables?

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