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Bash Case Statement

• A branching/control-flow mechanism in Bash
• Execute Commands based on what pattern an expression matches.

case EXPRESSION in
  PATTERN1) COMMANDS ;;
  PATTERN2) COMMANDS ;;
  PATTERN3) COMMANDS ;;
  ...
esac

• Patterns are shell patterns, not Regular Expressions.
• Matching is done top to bottom and matching stops after the first match.

Related:

• 20220114052639 Shell Pattern Matching

Reference:

• man bash

Tags:

#literature-note #scripting #syntax

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