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

Try this:

case $VAR in
normal)
    echo "This doesn't do fallthrough"
    ;;
fallthrough)
    echo -n "This does "
    ;&
somethingelse)
    echo "fall-through"
    ;;
esac