syntax of switch statment in Unix SunOS 5.9?

Question

i search about syntax of switch statment in google and i found many result ... i try it but no one give me result .... i want to ask about switch statment format please ?????

Answer 1

In bash there is the case statement

case string1 in
str1)
   commands;;
str2)
   commands;;
*)
   commands;;
esac

Answer 2

The switch statement in bash is called case. See help case for details.

case "$1" in
  -p) echo 'Hello, world!' ; exit 0 ;;
  -h|*) usage ; exit 1 ;;
esace