case passthru

[Mike Frysinger]

On 18 Feb 2016 11:04, David Henderson wrote:
> Good morning everyone, I am working with a shell script (#!/bin/sh)
> that utilizes a case statement to implement updates:
> 
> case "$(cat /tmp/md5.txt)" in
>     '123456')
>         ...implement updates for this particular version...
>         ;;
>     '234567')
>         ...implement updates for this particular version...
>         ;;
> esac
> 
> Using this syntax, I would have to reboot several times in order for
> all consecutive patches to be implemented.  In bash I can use ;&
> instead of ;; to allow for continuing from one match to all that
> follow, but I can't figure it out with the BB shell.  I've tried
> omitting the ;; characters, but that doesn't work either.  Any info
> would be appreciated!

as mentioned, this is a seldom used bash extension.  we have added them
in the past behind config knobs when people felt up to the task.  feel
free to log a bug at bugs.busybox.net, but most likely it'll need you
to actually write/submit the patch ;).
-mike
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