levk

Is there a way to turn off breaks in a case clause? That is, it would fall through to the next case like in C if you don't put the "break"

I need to write a script for work that collects logs and the user can specify which log to collect or collect all by default.

Edit: This is in bash preferably

skuinders

not sure, I have never done that in bash. You could just do ifs without the else if you don't figure it out, though.

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levk

have you done this in some other shell? bash case doesn't look to have any options do other shells' cases have options? the best case scenario would be if I could just put an option up top to fall through

Edit: Alternatively... Can I define my own command or a macro like 'case' or is that impossible

skuinders

I am only proficient in BASH, so I don't know about other shells. I don't think there is a keyword or anything of that nature which you could add to the case block to make it not break after a match. I would probably do this using ifs without elses - and if I wanted to make the fallover property switchable, I would write the regular case version (breaks) also and just do an if/else above both methods, using a decision variable that you set early in the script.

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