Question

Every pattern in case statement in terminated with a _____

(a) ;

(b) :

(c) ;;

(d) //

I have been asked this question by my college director while I was bunking the class.

This interesting question is from Case and Expr Command topic in portion Essential Shell Programming of Unix

Answer 1

The correct answer is (c) ;;

To elaborate: case statement matches an expression for more than one alternative. Every pattern in the case statement is terminated with a ;; .