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Using Case Statements in Bash Scripting by marco rossi is a document available to read on EtoBox.

This document discusses using case statements to handle complex conditional logic. Case statements provide a cleaner syntax than nested if/else statements when there are multiple possible actions. The example shows a disk usage script that uses a case statement to select different warning messages depending on the disk usage percentage. Based on the percentage, it outputs a message like "Start thinking about cleaning out some stuff" and emails the results. Case statements are commonly used in system startup

Author
marco rossi
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