Case Statement in Bash

The case statetement in Bash is as follows:

#!/bin/bash

variable="something"

case $variable in
  pattern1)
    echo "Matched pattern1"
    ;;
  pattern2)
    echo "Matched pattern2"
    ;;
  pattern3|pattern4)
    echo "Matched pattern3 or pattern4"
    ;;
  *)
    echo "No match"
    ;;
esac

Test the script

Let’s test the script with some different values of the variable:

variable="something" #=> No match

variable="pattern2" #=> Matched pattern2

variable="pattern3" #=> Matched pattern3 or pattern4
variable="pattern4" #=> Matched pattern3 or pattern4

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