[Info-vax] /END=label
John Reagan
xyzzy1959 at gmail.com
Mon Aug 27 15:13:50 EDT 2018
On Monday, August 27, 2018 at 1:49:13 PM UTC-4, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> On 2018-08-27 17:26:18 +0000, John Reagan said:
>
> > bash doesn't even have a 'goto' and people have to resort to using case
> > statements to case on the result (no different than looking at $STATUS
> > and IF/THEN/ELSE'ing on the result)
>
> "Prepare to cringe": https://bobcopeland.com/blog/2012/10/goto-in-bash/
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I saw that one and promptly gouged out my eyes. However, that isn't what what the OP wanted. That just does "goto" by cloning the script, editing it on the fly, and invoking the cloned script. None of that was done under program control.
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