Re: case statement: wrong behaviour of the ";;&" operator

[Chet Ramey]

On 1/26/19 12:30 AM, Norman Krebs wrote:

> Bash Version: 5.0
> Patch Level: 2
> Release Status: release
> 
> Description:
> 
>     "echo x" shouldn't be executed here, but it gets:
> 
>     case "1" in
>         1) : ;;&
>         2) : ;;
>         *) echo x ;;
>     esac
> 
>     Following the man page, the ';;&' operator should cause testing the _next_
>     pattern: '2)' only and not _all_ following patterns.

Well, it should have "as if the pattern list had not matched." at the end
there. The idea is that you move to the next pattern list and continue
executing the command. It's a way to have multiple patterns match if you
want to do that. It's not a frequently-used feature, it seems.

Chet
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