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[-] lil@lemy.lol 2 points 7 months ago

I guess shell languages can't do this:

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

[-] ryannathans@aussie.zone 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

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

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