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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Problem using bash case statement Post 302609993 by kristinu on Tuesday 20th of March 2012 05:06:09 PM
Old 03-20-2012
Problem using bash case statement
I have the following bash script and it is not accepting the lines

Code:
  "--"[sS][rR][cC][sS][iI][fF]|"--"[sS][rR][cC][sS]"-"[iI][nN][fF][iI][lL][eE])
  "--"[sS][oO][uU][rR][cC][eE][sS]"-"[iI][nN][fF][iI][lL][eE]")


Code:
while [ "$#" -gt 0 ]
do

  echo "Current Argument is ${1}"
  case "$1" in

  "--"[cC][mM][oO][dD][iI][fF]|"--"[cC][mM][oO][dD]"-"[iI][nN][fF][iI][lL][eE])
    echo "Argument is ${1}"
    shift     # Skip ahead one to the next argument.
    arg_cmodInFile="${1}"
  ;;

  "--"[sS][rR][cC][sS][iI][fF]|"--"[sS][rR][cC][sS]"-"[iI][nN][fF][iI][lL][eE])
  "--"[sS][oO][uU][rR][cC][eE][sS]"-"[iI][nN][fF][iI][lL][eE]")
    shift     # Skip ahead one to the next argument.
    arg_srcsInFile="${1}"
    opt_srcsInFile=1
  ;;

  esac

  shift # Skip ahead to the next argument

done

 

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