Re: [hylafax-users] $DEVICE in FaxDispatch

[Riccardo Magliocchetti <riccardo.magliocchetti@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Bodo,

Bodo Meissner wrote:
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> Riccardo Magliocchetti wrote, on 26.07.2008 12:19:
> | Bodo Meissner wrote:
> |> | case "$DEVICE" in
> |> |  ttyS14) SENDTO=xxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;;
> |> |  ttyS0)  SENDTO= xxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;;
> |> |  *)      SENDTO= xxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;;
> |> | esac
> |>
> |> Here is a bug in your shell script. The following case statement will
> |> overwrite any SENDTO value you have set above because it has a
> |> default(*) case
> |
> | I don't think so, bash at least doesn't fall through; * is for the
> | default when you haven't matched anything before.
>
> Yes, inside one case statement the shell will not fall through to the
> '*' pattern if every case is terminated by ;;.
> But since the second case statement in the original shell script has a
> '*' pattern, it will set a SENDTO value in any case, that means it will
> overwrite any SENDTO value that has been set in the first case
> statement. This means the first case statement in the original sript is
> useless because the second case statement will always overwrite the
> variable values set by the first one.
>
> If the second case statement did not have a '*' pattern it would not
> overwrite the SENDO value from the first case statement if none of the
> specified patterns match.

Yeah, i misunderstood what you have written; sorry for the noise :)

cheers,
riccardo


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