Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all,
First of all compliments on the forum here. Looks great and has lots of information, some of which I have been able to use. I am a relativ noob when it comes to Unix but already I have been fooling around with scripts for the company I work for here in switzerland!

Thanks to this forum I created following script:

Code:

#!/bin/ksh

email=$tp/email.txt
choice=0

while [ $choice -ne 4 ]
do
        clear
        echo "Bitte Email-adresse von Liste wählen:"
        echo ""
        echo "1)  urs.betscha@rhenus.ch"
        echo "2)  michael.jucker@rhenus.ch"
        echo "3)  david.temperli@rhenus.ch"
        echo ""
        echo "4)  Programm beenden!"
        echo ""
        echo   " Welche Email-adresse? \c"
        read choice
        case "$choice" in
                1 ) echo "urs.bet@rhe.ch" >&1  ;;
                2 ) echo "michael.jur@rhe.ch" > $email ;;
                3 ) echo "david.te@rhe.ch" > $email ;;
                4 ) clear; exit 1 ;;
        esac
done

works great so far. the only problem I have is that when the user makes a choice (1,2 or 3 i would like a text to come that basically says: The email address you chose was: david.t@bluewin.ch
In the case I put in >&1 which results in that I quickly see it on the screen but with the loop it is imediatly cleared again. If this was vba I would have no problem but this kinda scripting is new to me!

Or perhaps I am going about this completly wrong. The end result should be that the user makes a choice and his email address gets written into a text file which is later used in another script to define who an email is sent to.
So I would greatly appreciate it if someone could help me

Thanks
swissman24 aka David

THe changes are in color

#!/bin/ksh

email=$tp/email.txt
choice=0

while [ $choice -ne 4 ]
do
clear
echo "Bitte Email-adresse von Liste wählen:"
echo ""
echo "1) urs.betscha@rhenus.ch"
echo "2) michael.jucker@rhenus.ch"
echo "3) david.temperli@rhenus.ch"
echo ""
echo "4) Programm beenden!"
echo ""
echo " Welche Email-adresse? \c"
read choice
case "$choice" in
1 ) email="urs.bet@rhe.ch";;
2 ) email="michael.jur@rhe.ch" ;;
3 ) email="david.te@rhe.ch" ;;
4 ) clear; exit 1 ;;
esac
echo "The id you selected is $email_id"
echo "$email_id" >> $email
echo "Press a key\c"
read x #just to wait for you to press enter
done

thanks for the help. Worked just fine!
KR
David