Instead of if/else statements, you can use case statements to evaluate a variable. Notice that esac is case backwards and is used to exit the case statement similar to fi for if statements.
Case statements follow this flow:
case $THING_I_AM_TO_EVALUATE in 1) # Condition to evaluate is number 1 (could be "a" for a string too!) echo "THING_I_AM_TO_EVALUATE equals 1" ;; # Notice that this is used to close this evaluation *) # * Signified the catchall (when THING_I_AM_TO_EVALUATE does not equal values in the switch) echo "FALLTHOUGH or default condition"esac # Close case statement
The following is a working example:
#!/bin/bashVAR=10 # Edit to 1 or 2 and re-run, after running the script as is.case $VAR in 1) echo "1" ;;
