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Hello,

I'm trying to match in a case statement based on file extension. Essentially, I want to do something different for .mp3 files and .ogg files.

I have this case statement:



But this element always comes up in the default case, instead of the .ogg case:
"/home/testuser/gpodder-downloads/GNU World Order Linux OggCast/gnuWorldOrder_6x02.ogg"

The trailing double quote is necessary because this case statement is in a loop that processes on a list of files, which could contain spaces in the path, so I used awk to wrap each line in double quotes.

Essentially, I just want to see if the string ends in '.mp3"' or '.ogg"'. I am clearly missing something but every example I see uses trivial regular expression matches. Any suggestions?

well for starters.....

it would be

case $musicfile in

you forgot the $

Do your file names really contain "$ at the end? For me, just
works.

@crouse: thanks I knew it was something silly like that. I haven't written shell script in years and I'm just getting back into it. It's amazing what you forget when you don't use it.

@choroba: The intent of that was to match specifically the end of a string. This is because some of the folder names that the podcasts are put into contain '.mp3' or '.ogg', and I want to be sure I match specifically against the file extention. I'm a bit rusty, maybe the $ isn't necessary? The " is necessary though, because each filename is wrapped in double quotes since the folder names sometimes contain spaces.

Thanks for the help!

Case uses wildcard patterns, not regular expressions. $ has no special meaning there.

Ah, ok, then I can throw out the $.

Thanks for the clarification!