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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting NEW: need help with nawk using -v vars Post 302189516 by wakhan on Saturday 26th of April 2008 04:34:30 AM
Old 04-26-2008
Thanks alot ERA , its working!!

Can you explain this line, especially this ;; *) break;; esac

case $reply in [Yy]*) ;; *) break;; esac

what exactly this line is doing ?

Regards,
Waqas Ahmed
 

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