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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting how to test input variable is a string in a select loop Post 302490367 by Chubler_XL on Monday 24th of January 2011 04:38:58 PM
Old 01-24-2011
The shell variable REPLY contains what the user selected from the menu eg 1,2,E,Q or M.

The variable file contains the filename they selected or blank if they type a number or letter not on the menu.

So you can do

Code:
select file in ~/vendorlists/*
do
    case $REPLY in
         E|M|Q) ACTION=$REPLY; break ;;
    esac
    if [ -z "$file" ]
    then
         echo "Invalid choice"
    else
         open ~/vendorlists/$file
         break
    fi
done

 

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