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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting UNIX script -- case Post 302764883 by zazzybob on Friday 1st of February 2013 05:38:35 AM
Old 02-01-2013
UNIX (and its shells) provides appropriate tools for a myriad of tasks. In this instance, the if/else construct is appropriate.

Try a different example using case if you want to learn how it works - for example having a user answer yes/no to a question and then having case decide what to do based upon the user response.
 

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