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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Selection from array Post 303024335 by bignellrp on Saturday 6th of October 2018 01:24:20 PM
Old 10-06-2018
Wow. Thanks so much bakunin. You are certainly right that it is better to "teach a man to fish". I struggled with this for hours before i posted as it was hard finding something on google that was relevant enough to my problem to learn from. So now not only am i one step closer to resolving my problem i have learned a lot more.

I'll have a play and let you know how i get on.

------ Post updated at 05:24 PM ------

Having much more fun now i know how the array works, but I'm struggling to get the row to display as a whole selection. The array is splitting all the individual items into options.

I want to display like:

1. apples : 1111 : aaaa
2. pears : 2222 : bbbb
3. peaches : 3333 : cccc

but its displaying

1. apples
2. 1111
3. aaaa
4. pears
5. 2222

etc

Here is my new code:

Code:
options=( $(awless -l list routetables --columns ID,NAME,VPC --filter VPC=vpc-0025xxxxxxxe52 | grep rtb | sed 's/|//g') )
selection=""
options[((${#options[@]}+1))]="EXIT"

selection=""

PS3="Enter 1-$((${#options[@]}-1)) to select an item or ${#options[@]} to exit => "

#PS3="Select an item or 5 to exit => "
select selection in ${options[@]} ; do
     case "$selection" in
          "")
               echo "You selected a non-existing item"
               ;;

          "EXIT")
               echo "You are leaving the loop."
               break
               ;;

          *)
               echo "You selected $selection"
               ;;

     esac
done

echo "here is the end of the program"
exit 0

 

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