Shell Programming and Scripting

$ cat bashfiles
#! /usr/local/bin/bash

for arg ; do
        case $arg in
        *.tar)
                echo $arg is a tar file
                ;;
        *.Z)
                echo $arg is a compressed file
                ;;
        *.gz)
                echo $arg is a gzipped file
                ;;
        *)
                echo $arg is an unsupported file type
                ;;
        esac
done
exit 0
$ ./bashfiles a b c d e f g h i j k  a.tar b.gz c.Z
a is an unsupported file type
b is an unsupported file type
c is an unsupported file type
d is an unsupported file type
e is an unsupported file type
f is an unsupported file type
g is an unsupported file type
h is an unsupported file type
i is an unsupported file type
j is an unsupported file type
k is an unsupported file type
a.tar is a tar file
b.gz is a gzipped file
c.Z is a compressed file
$