#Program for ‘case’ statement
# Author : Antony
# Last date of modification : 29/07/2007
#Syntax
# case word in
# pattern1)
# list1 ; ;
# pattern2)
# list2 ; ;
# esac
#Simple Example
echo “Select the Option”
echo “1.Terminal”
echo “2.Firefox”
echo “3.Text editor”
read name
case $name in
1) echo “Terminal is running…”
echo “`xterm`” ;;
2) echo “Firefox is running…”
echo “`firefox`” ;;
3) echo “Text editor has been opened …”
echo “`gedit`” ;;
esac
