Match a variable against string literals to decide which command to run

case

Branch based on the value of an expression.
More information: <https://manned.org/case>.
Trick copyright: tl;dr; <https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr>

case {{$tocount}} in {{words}}) {{wc -w README}}; ;; {{lines}}) {{wc -l README}}; ;; esac

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