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submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I guess shell languages can't do this:

export EDITOR=case "$OSTYPE" in
  linux*)
    nano
  ;;
  freebsd*)
    ee
  ;;

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

That would be too smart. Smells like kotlin's when

[–] SpaceNoodle 2 points 7 months ago

Put backticks around the entire case statement, and you can.