case syntas

[Hanry Zhou]

in Bourne shell, which one is correct

1. case $a in
2. case in $a
3. case "$a" in
4. case "$a"

[BFA6 · Accepted solution]

Hi,

case $a in

is the corect one

Regards,

Hilary

[Ian Lochray]

According to HP's Shells:Users's guide, the correct answer is 1. case $a in

[Seth Parker]

I got tired of looking for answers like this all the time so I printed the man pages. They generally give me a quick answer to my basic qustions. We use the POSIX shell so I did "man sh-posix | lp", but "man sh-bourne | lp" would give you what you're looking for.

I know it's not the actual answer to your question but it's a nice resouce since all the the basic syntax is in there.

Good luck!

[Seth Parker]

I got tired of looking for answers like this all the time so I printed the man pages. They generally give me a quick answer to my basic qustions. We use the POSIX shell so I did "man sh-posix | lp", but "man sh-bourne | lp" would give you what you're looking for.

I know it's not the actual answer to your question but it's a nice resource since all the the basic syntax is in there.

Good luck!