I want to do this:
Code:
Ex 1:
case $answer in
1|2|3|4|5) echo $answer;;
x) break;;
*) echo "Invalid selection. Try again.";;
esac
But I need the part "1|2|3|4|5" to be fetched from a variable, like so:
Code:
Ex 2:
case $answer in
$cases) echo $answer;;
x) break;;
*) echo "Invalid selection. Try again.";;
esac
So if the input is 1-n, I want my program to execute (its not really echo I plan on executing, but I
will send $answer as the action's input).
Is that possible? What I really want to know is, can the number of cases be variable depending on when the script is run? If so, how do I achieve it?
When written like in ex 2 my input is interpreted as * every time. I have also tried replacing "$cases" with "´echo $cases´" with the same result.
The script is written in bash and runs on Sun Solaris 9.