Case statement fallthrough?

Question

In popular imperative languages, switch statements generally \"fall through\" to the next level once a case statement has been matched.

Example:

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Answer 1

The ;& and ;;& operators were introduced in bash 4.0, so if you want to stick with a five year old version of bash, you'll either have to repeat code, or use ifs.

if (( a == 1)); then echo quick; fi
if (( a > 0 && a <= 2)); then echo brown; fi 
if (( a > 0 && a <= 3)); then echo fox; fi
if (( a == 4)); then echo jumped; fi

or find some other way to achieve the actual goal.

(On a side note, don't use all uppercase variable names. You risk overwriting special shell variables or environment variables.)