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Re: Bash “case” statement
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Lawrence Velázquez |
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Re: Bash “case” statement |
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Wed, 12 Jul 2023 20:22:17 -0400 |
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On Wed, Jul 12, 2023, at 7:52 PM, Tony Esposito wrote:
> Is the bash “case”
> statement just syntactic sugar?
> That is, does the bash interpreter convert the “case” statement into an
> equivalent “if-then-else” statement and then do the interpretation?
No.
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bash.git/tree/execute_cmd.c?h=devel#n3532
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