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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Help With Loop in Case Statement script Post 302516207 by hergp on Friday 22nd of April 2011 02:12:07 AM
Old 04-22-2011
Try this:

Code:
while true
do
    echo "Would you like to:"
    echo "1) See your name"
    echo "2) See your current directory"
    echo "3) See your home directory"
    echo "4) Quit"
    echo -n ">> "
    read case

    case "$case" in
        1) echo "username";;
        2) echo "$PWD";;
        3) echo "$HOME";;
        4) break;;
    esac
done

echo "Quit"

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