sh: case .... ==> ;; esac <==

[Michael Meissner]

In article <1990Jun9.174744.16051 at cbnewse.att.com> Dan_Jacobson at ATT.COM writes:

| 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

The Free Software Foundation shell Bash 1.04 requires it.  I dunno
about 1.05 (I'm waiting for 1.06).
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