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                      3: case                         Command                         case
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                      8: Execute commands conditionally according to pattern
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                     10: ccaassee _t_o_k_e_n iinn
                     11: [ _p_a_t_t_e_r_n [ | _p_a_t_t_e_r_n ] ... ) _s_e_q_u_e_n_c_e ;; ] ...
                     12: esac
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                     14: case is  a construct  that used  by the shell  sh.  It  tells the
                     15: shell to execute  commands conditionally, according to a pattern.
                     16: It tests  the given token  successively against each  pattern, in
                     17: the order  given.  It then executes the  commands in the sequence
                     18: corresponding  to  the  first  matching  pattern.   Optional  `|'
                     19: clauses specify additional patterns corresponding to a single se-
                     20: quence.  If no pattern  matches the token, the case construct ex-
                     21: ecutes no commands.
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                     23: Each pattern  can include  text characters (which  match themsel-
                     24: ves), special characters  `?' (which matches any character except
                     25: newline)  and  `*' (which  matches  any  sequence of  non-newline
                     26: characters), and  character classes  enclosed in brackets  `[ ]';
                     27: ranges of characters within a  class may be separated by `-'.  In
                     28: particular, the  last pattern in  a case construct  is often `*',
                     29: which will match any token.
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                     31: The shell executes case directly.
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                     33: ***** See Also *****
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