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Old 04-10-2011
In my first post in this thread, I mentioned the missing 'done' keywords. You responded that you added them but never posted your new code. If that's a sample of it, then your 'done' keywords are in the wrong place. The select-statement contains the if-statement so the keyword 'done' should come after the 'fi': select ... do ... if ... then ... elif ... then ... else ... fi ... done. Otherwise, the two statements are illegally interweaved.

If that doesn't work or if there are still problems remaining afterwards, post the current version of your script to make sure we are all on the same page, continue whittling the script down to the smallest amount of code that exhibits the problem, and use 'set -x' to enable tracing.

Regards,
Alister

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Thank you very much! That did it!
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