How to create a selection menu using the select statement in Bash shell | Linux Today

How to create a selection menu using the select statement in Bash shell

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Egidio Docile
Mar 4, 2020

We all very often use bash scripts to automatize boring and repetitive tasks. Sometimes in our scripts we need to ask the user to perform one or more choices interactively: in this tutorial we will see how to use the Bash shell select statement to perform such operation in very few lines of code.

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Egidio Docile

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