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Old 05-17-2008
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Join Date: May 2008
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a main menu option?

I have created a main menu in the following way:
Code:
while true; do
	echo " "        
	echo "Main Menu: "
	echo "Please Select An Option Using The Options Provided."
	echo " "        
	echo "1 - Search All Files"
	echo " "        
	echo "2 - Search Individual Files"
        echo " "
        echo "q - Quit"
        echo " "
        echo "Please enter your option: "
        read CHOSEN_KEY
        case $CHOSEN_KEY in
                1)      echo " " 
			echo "Thank You For Selecting Search All Files"
                        break;;
                2)      echo " "
			echo "Thank You For Selecting Individual Search"
                        break;;
                q)      echo " "
			echo "Goodbye"
                        exit;;
        esac
done
What i want to know is, if the user selects option 2 how do i get the code to redirect to another path. I know it is something to do with the break after option 2 is selected but what to i type to make the code go somewhere else?
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Old 05-17-2008
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It's probably easiest to take out the break and put the actual desired action inside the case statement. For readability, you might want to externalize the definition of the action into a function.

Code:
searchonefile () {
  # Replace this with more useful functionality
  grep fnord /etc/motd
}

searchallfiles () {
  # Ditto
  grep fnord *
}

while true; do
       cat <<____HERE

Main Menu: 
Please Select An Option Using The Options Provided.

1 - Search All Files

2 - Search Individual Files

q - Quit

Please enter your option: 
____HERE

        read CHOSEN_KEY

        case $CHOSEN_KEY in
                1)     searchallfiles;; 
                2)     searchonefile;;
                q)      echo " "
			echo "Goodbye"
                        exit;;
        esac
done
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