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.
In this tutorial you will learn:- How to use the Bash select statement
- How to customize the select menu prompt
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-create-a-selection-menu-using-the-select-statement-in-bash-shell