case passthru

[David Henderson]

On 2/18/16, Bastian Bittorf <bittorf at bluebottle.com> wrote:
> * David Henderson <dhenderson at digital-pipe.com> [18.02.2016 17:14]:
>> case "$(cat /tmp/md5.txt)" in
>>     '123456')
>>         ...implement updates for this particular version...
>>         ;;
>>     '234567')
>>         ...implement updates for this particular version...
>>         ;;
>> esac
>
> this is not POSIX and you can work around with e.g.:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> while read -r CRC; do
>   case "$CRC" in
>     '1234')
>       ...
>     ;;
>     '5678')
>       ...
>     ;;
>   esac
> done </tmp/md5.txt

I figured it wasn't POSIX since the only exceptions I could find dealt
with bash or zsh, but thanks for the work around!

Dave