[ale] Baffled on doing CASE statement with a Variable list of values

[Jim Kinney]

This works:
#!/bin/bash
FRED='one'
case $FRED in
  one|two|pie) echo "got ${FRED}"; ;;
  *) echo "crud"; ;;
esac
On Mon, 2015-08-03 at 12:03 -0400, Neal Rhodes wrote:
> Exactly how does not assign a list of values separated by pipe to use
> that variable later on in a script and make a CASE statement happy? 
> The script below shows a variety of attempts. 
> 
> Ultimately, we're aiming to grab the list from a file, eg "LIST="`cat
> allow.list`"
> 
> 
> REMOTE_ADDR=one
> 
> case $REMOTE_ADDR in
>         one|two|three) echo "I like $REMOTE_ADDR" ;;    # Picks this
> one.
>         *) echo "I do NOT like $REMOTE_ADDR" ;;
> esac
> 
> LIST="one|two|three"
> case $REMOTE_ADDR in
>         $LIST) echo "But now I like $REMOTE_ADDR" ;;
>         *) echo "But now I do NOT like $REMOTE_ADDR" ;; # Picks this
> one.
> esac
> 
> case $REMOTE_ADDR in
>         "$LIST") echo "And I like $REMOTE_ADDR" ;;
>         *) echo "And I do NOT like $REMOTE_ADDR" ;;     # Picks this
> one.
> esac
> 
> LIST="one"
> case $REMOTE_ADDR in
>         "$LIST") echo "Yet I like $REMOTE_ADDR" ;;      # Picks this
> one.
>         *) echo "Yet I do NOT like $REMOTE_ADDR" ;;
> esac
> 
> LIST="one\|two\|three"
> case $REMOTE_ADDR in
>         $LIST) echo "However now I like $REMOTE_ADDR" ;;
>         *) echo "However now I do NOT like $REMOTE_ADDR" ;;     #
> Picks this one.
> esac
> 
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