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Old 01-11-2013
Capturing multiple values from user input

Hello,

I need to capture multiple values from user input and do not know how to do it. I'm writing a script to delete old files, but want to give the option to keep some by asking the user.

This is what my output looks like...
Code:
Old files to be deleted...
1 file1
2 file2

Then this bit of code is run after the above is output to keep or delete files.

Code:
echo "Would you like to keep any found  files? (y/n)"
read USER_ANSWER

while [ ${USER_ANSWER} == "y" ]
do
	echo "Type the number associated with the file(s) to be kept."
	read  USER_NUM
	if [ $USER_NUM -gt ${#FILES[@]} -o $USER_NUM -le 0 ]
	then
		echo -e "Invalid."
	else
		echo -e "\nKeeping: " ${FILEST[${USER_NUM}]}"\n"
		touch ${FILES[${USER_NUM}]}
		echo -e "Removing "${FILES[@]}
		break
	fi
done
if [ ${USER_ANSWER} == "n" ]
then
	echo -e "\nDeleting "${FILES[@]}
	rm -r  ${FILES[@]}
fi

And from this point I prompt the user and ask which files they want to keep if any, and they select a number from the above output and it keeps that file. But I want to make it so the user can input more than one number for keeping the files, like typing 1 2 3 4 if they want to keep those four files.

How do I do this? I'm new to bash the more explanation contained in the answer the more I can learn Smilie

Thanks
 

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