with Regard to Case Statement - Shell Programming and Scripting

cosec · #1 (**permalink**) 09-03-2007

I need to check if $1 is A or B
I tried the following but it seems its not correct..would appreciate a suggestion ?

case "$1"
in
"A" || "B" )
;;
esac

Thanks

blowtorch · #2 (**permalink**) 09-03-2007

Code:

case $1 in
"A")
"B") #do something...
;;
*) #do something else
;;
esac

cosec · #3 (**permalink**) 09-03-2007

Yes That's possible but I prefer to find out if i can use an or statement

robotronic · #4 (**permalink**) 09-03-2007

Code:

case "$1" in
   A|B) echo "A or B";;
esac

cosec · #5 (**permalink**) 09-03-2007

thanks !!! it works the way i want it to now...

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