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The script is working brilliantly!

Thanks everyone for your time and input!

Now I see what you are thinking, and it's not what I am thiniking. Let me try to clarify:

The user does not need to know the translated value.

The translated value needs to be passed into a...

All I need to have happen is when the user selects #1 and presses enter, then the value of what 1 corresponds to in the background gets passed to a -switch on the final command in the script.
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Ok!

I have the break working properly.

Now all I need is to have the $REPLY value passed to the command line.

Is the $REPLY setting a variable that can be used in the rest of the script or...

I did the substitution, and it is returning the correct value.

I have break at the end becuase I only want the user to be able to select ONE of the options. Once one is selected it then ends with...

Ok guys, I think I'm missing something here.

I was using radoulov's example and had gotten much further.

I see two things happening that I need to change.

(1) When I select an option from...

Yes, it does! That makes more sense as it's apparent I'm no scripting expert.

Thank you both for your replies!

Hmm...not sure I know what to do with that :eek: Any more details? I can't say I've ever done anything like that before...

Hi!

I need to determin the most efficient way to do something (rather simple, I thought).

I'm currently echo(ing) a series of menu options, and reading the command input as the number...