Shell Programming and Scripting

I am trying to figure out why I am having a "problem" with some functions in a bash script I am running. The reason for air quoting is that the functions are working, they are just not displaying anything to screen when called from another function. Here's an example:

Code:

function Create_Input
{
read -p "Enter customer name: " CUSTOMER
read -p "Are you including SST data? <Y/N> " SST_DATA

case $SST_DATA in
  [yY]) make_sst_data
      ;;
  [nN]) make_no_sst_data
     ;;
  *) bomb
    ;;
esac
}

In the two "make" functions, I call a spinner and I run some additional commands, but none of the output goes to screen until at the last second when everything completes (I have a sleep to pause so I can see anything that would be missed by just exiting back), then I can see it ran things. The script is going to be used by others and I put in visual queues for people to see that things are running (like the spinner as it processes files), but none of those references are coming through. The case statement itself is inside of a function that does some validations first and prompts the user for some required inputs.

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