bash case statement question

[David A. Bandel]

On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 12:51, xDog Walker <thudfoo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Here is a question about bash: What does the .$1 mean in the following case
> statement (I know $1 means the first argument, but what does the . mean
> here?)
>
>     case .$1 in

note that there is NO space between the "." and the $1, effectively
concatenating the two.

>
> and later on:
>
>     .[aA])
>           SAMPLE="blah";;

again, note that your statement is "dot"[blah] -- again, it matches
the concatenated . above.

You can remove the "." throughout, it will work the same.

>
> Thanks
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HTH,

David A. Bandel
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