Serious Shell Programming
  • Introduction
  • Acknowledgements
  • Basics
    • Strings
      • Single-Quotes
      • Double-Quotes
      • Unquoted Strings
      • Compound Strings
    • Here Documents
      • Here Doc
      • Indented Here Doc
      • Literal Here Doc
      • In-Memory Here Doc
    • Conditionals
      • Built-in test
      • Parameter Conditionals
      • Parameter test
    • Regex
      • grep
      • awk
      • pcre
    • Control Flow
      • Binary Operators
      • if-elif-else
      • case Statement
      • for Loop
      • while Loop
      • Functions
  • shellcheck
    • Introduction
    • Bad Advice
  • Style
    • awk
    • case
    • Redirection
    • Comments
    • trap
  • String Functions
    • substr
    • sprintf
    • replace
    • replaceall
    • replacestart
    • replaceend
    • fnmatch
  • awk
    • Pre-declaring Arrays
    • Sorting Arrays
  • Know Your limits
    • Arguments
    • Environment Variables
    • Solutions
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  1. Style

case

The opening case, patterns, and closing esac should be indented to the same level. If a pattern consists of a single action, it can be written on a single line with a single space before the terminator (;;) as long as the entire line is less than 80 characters wide. Split multiple statements onto multiple lines and place the terminator (;;) on its own line. Do not use the terminator (;;) for fallback pattern *.

case "$item1" in
patternA) ... ;; # optional comment
patternB) # optional comment
    ...
    ...
    ;;
*) ...
esac
if [ "$item2" ]; then
    case "$item2" in
    patternC) # optional comment
        ...
        ...
        ;;
    *) # optional comment
        ...
        ...
    esac
fi
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