I'm using a bash script menu like this:
#!/bin/bash
PS3='Please enter your choice: '
options=("Option 1" "Option 2" "Option3" "Quit")
select opt in "${options[@]}"
do
case $opt in
"Option 1")
echo "you chose choice 1"
;;
"Option 2")
echo "you chose choice 2"
;;
"Option 3")
echo "you chose choice 3"
;;
"Quit")
break
;;
*) echo invalid option;;
esac
done
After each menu selection I just get prompted with
Please enter your choice:
How do I always show the menu after each option has finished execution? I've done some looking around and I think I can do some kind of while loop, but I haven't been able to get anything working.
Make it beautiful and userfriendly ;-)
#!/bin/bash
while :
do
clear
cat<<EOF
==============================
Menusystem experiment
------------------------------
Please enter your choice:
Option (1)
Option (2)
Option (3)
(Q)uit
------------------------------
EOF
read -n1 -s
case "$REPLY" in
"1") echo "you chose choice 1" ;;
"2") echo "you chose choice 2" ;;
"3") echo "you chose choice 3" ;;
"Q") exit ;;
"q") echo "case sensitive!!" ;;
* ) echo "invalid option" ;;
esac
sleep 1
done
Replace the echos in this example with function calls or calls to other scripts.
just modified your script like below. its working for me !
#!/bin/bash
while true
do
PS3='Please enter your choice: '
options=("Option 1" "Option 2" "Option 3" "Quit")
select opt in "${options[@]}"
do
case $opt in
"Option 1")
echo "you chose choice 1"
break
;;
"Option 2")
echo "you chose choice 2"
break
;;
"Option 3")
echo "you chose choice 3"
break
;;
"Quit")
echo "Thank You..."
exit
;;
*) echo invalid option;;
esac
done
done
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