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The case builtin in bash
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case.sh
case $VAL in
( 1 ) echo "The val is 1" ; echo "Echoing out some more text" ;;
( 2 ) echo "The val is 2" ;;
( * ) echo "The value is not 1 or 2" ;;
esac
# There is a shorter version to case aswell
case $OS in
ubuntu ) echo "Running ubuntu" ;;
centos ) echo "Running centos" ;;
easc
# if the values in "OS" are string you dont really need quotationmarks
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