A simple bash case question...

[Dan Thurman]

I am trying to figure out how to do the following:

case $foo in

"one" || "two)
       process_One_Two ;;
    "three")
       process_Three ;;
    "four" || "five")
       process_Four_Five ;;
    *) echo "Nothing to process" ;;
esac

The problem I am having is getting "one" || "Two"
or "four" || "five" to work - so as to consolidate
two or more strings per case statement line,
otherwise I would have code duplication.

Any advice?

Thanks!
Dan

[Dave Ihnat]

On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 10:40:10AM -0700, Dan Thurman wrote:
> I am trying to figure out how to do the following:
> ...
> Any advice?

Get rid of the ||, just use |.
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    Dave Ihnat
    President, DMINET Consulting, Inc.
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[Dan Thurman]

Dave Ihnat wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 10:40:10AM -0700, Dan Thurman wrote:
> > I am trying to figure out how to do the following:
> > ...
> > Any advice?
>
> Get rid of the ||, just use |.

Yup!  That worked!
Thanks!

Dan

[Armin]

On Tuesday 02 September 2008 14:40:10 Dan Thurman wrote:
> I am trying to figure out how to do the following:
>
> case $foo in
> "one" || "two)
>    process_One_Two ;;
> "three")
>    process_Three ;;
> "four" || "five")
>    process_Four_Five ;;
> *) echo "Nothing to process" ;;
>
> esac
>
> The problem I am having is getting "one" || "Two"
> or "four" || "five" to work - so as to consolidate
> two or more strings per case statement line,
> otherwise I would have code duplication.
>
> Any advice?
>
> Thanks!
> Dan

try:

case $foo in
    "one" | "two)
    	processOneTwo;;
esac