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<body><div>This works:</div><div><br></div><div>#!/bin/bash</div><div><br></div><div>FRED='one'</div><div><br></div><div>case $FRED in</div><div> one|two|pie) echo "got ${FRED}"; ;;</div><div> *) echo "crud"; ;;</div><div>esac</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>On Mon, 2015-08-03 at 12:03 -0400, Neal Rhodes wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite">
Exactly how does not assign a list of values separated by pipe to use that variable later on in a script and make a CASE statement happy? <br>
The script below shows a variety of attempts. <br>
<br>
Ultimately, we're aiming to grab the list from a file, eg "LIST="`cat allow.list`"<br>
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REMOTE_ADDR=one<br>
<br>
case $REMOTE_ADDR in<br>
one|two|three) echo "I like $REMOTE_ADDR" ;; # Picks this one.<br>
*) echo "I do NOT like $REMOTE_ADDR" ;;<br>
esac<br>
<br>
LIST="one|two|three"<br>
case $REMOTE_ADDR in<br>
$LIST) echo "But now I like $REMOTE_ADDR" ;;<br>
*) echo "But now I do NOT like $REMOTE_ADDR" ;; # Picks this one.<br>
esac<br>
<br>
case $REMOTE_ADDR in<br>
"$LIST") echo "And I like $REMOTE_ADDR" ;;<br>
*) echo "And I do NOT like $REMOTE_ADDR" ;; # Picks this one.<br>
esac<br>
<br>
LIST="one"<br>
case $REMOTE_ADDR in<br>
"$LIST") echo "Yet I like $REMOTE_ADDR" ;; # Picks this one.<br>
*) echo "Yet I do NOT like $REMOTE_ADDR" ;;<br>
esac<br>
<br>
LIST="one\|two\|three"<br>
case $REMOTE_ADDR in<br>
$LIST) echo "However now I like $REMOTE_ADDR" ;;<br>
*) echo "However now I do NOT like $REMOTE_ADDR" ;; # Picks this one.<br>
esac<br>
</blockquote>
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