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True enough.

You've pointed me into layers I've never been to before, but am not afraid to explore. I'll chew on that and consider this thread to have run its course. Thanks.

So if it set COLUMNS=20 it shouldn't present a menu in multiple columns if such presentation would require more than 20 characters (including spacing) per line? Again, that makes sense in...

Yes, it's all readable and usable. Yes, the different options produce different results and that is to be expected. As I've stated earlier in the thread, what I'm after is some real understanding...

That makes sense, but I'm still can't seem to get my head around how that works in the specifics of this case.

If I shorten my literal last entry to simply 'None', and don't specifically set...

RudiC,

That fixed the display to what I was after.
FWIW, I found no reference to this in any discussion or example of 'select'. Of course, when you showed that, the first thing I did was go...

As noted in my edit, I discovered that /bin/sh is a symbolic pointing specifically to /bin/bash.

My shell scripting is pretty much self-taught; consequently, a lot of the subtleties of the...

Just using sh. First line of script is
#!/bin/sh

I thought at first it might be an issue with the interaction with IFS, but I added the same "none of the above" option to another block...

Oracle Linux 5.6 64-bit

Given the below snippet

ORACLE_SID=''
PS3='Select target (test) database being refreshed: '
#
while [[ $ORACLE_SID = "" ]]; do
select ORACLE_SID in `egrep -i...