The purpose of enclosed script is to execute selected command and output success or failure in whiptail msgBox

Works as expected when command returns zero to msgBox.


I cannot figure out how to continue / automate my script when command expects reply to continue / terminate. I am doing it manually in terminal by keying "q".


Basically

how do I detect in my script that the command requires response continue / return "control " back to scrip

and how do I insert "q" into my script?




PS I have deleted commented out code so the line numbers are NOT is sequence.

Code:

                         while read choice
  199  do
 204  $choice  #execute command  
 211 exitstatus=$?
 212  if [ $exitstatus = 0 ]; then
         msgDialog
  220 ((counter++))
  221  else
  222         echo "Exit status failed "
        fi

232  done < results