I am trying to do something like:
fn()
{
"reusedPattern")
#do stuff
;;
}
and call it within a select case
select stuff in ${something[@]}
do
case $stuff in
"pattern1")
#do stuff
;;
...
fn
...
*) echo invalid input ;;
done
When executing script, bash doesn't like the function (gives me error regarding the ")" and the ";;").
What would work?
A function can only have complete commands, not a fragment of a case statement.
What you can do is to define the #do stuff part in a function, and call it from the case command:
reusedPatternCommands()
{
#do stuff
echo "reusedPattern"
}
select stuff in ${something[@]}
do
case $stuff in
"pattern1")
#do stuff
;;
...
"reusedPattern")
reusedPatternCommands
...
*) echo invalid input ;;
done
