Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!pacbell.com!pacbell!att!cbnewse!danj1
From: Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: sh: case .... ==> ;; esac <==
Message-ID: <1990Jun9.174744.16051@cbnewse.att.com>
Date: 9 Jun 90 17:47:44 GMT
Sender: danj1@cbnewse.att.com (Dan Jacobson)
Organization: AT&T-BL, Naperville IL, USA
Lines: 13

Is there any Bourne (or "Bourne compatible") shell version that requires
me to put the last ";;" right before the "esac"?  The language
description in "An Introduction to the UNIX Shell" (Bourne/Seiden, 4.3
BSD book USD:3-23) seems to require it, though there are examples on
previous pages that omit it.

E.g.,
case $LL in
	COOL) echo this;;
	J)    echo that;; #is the ";;" needed here?
esac
-- 
Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM	+1-708-979-6364