I just realized that in shell scripting esac, the closing statement for case is just case reversed. This may be a stupid question but does esac actually mean something (ie an abbreviation) or was it chosen solely due to it being the literal opposite of case?
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2Have you also seen `if` and `fi`? – muru Jan 19 '23 at 02:52
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I think https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/256175/70524 from the above post covers this well – muru Jan 19 '23 at 03:15
