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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting with Regard to Case Statement Post 302134814 by cosec on Tuesday 4th of September 2007 12:10:57 AM
Old 09-04-2007
with Regard to Case Statement
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
 

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