Select Loop | Shell Scripting

This is a multipart blog article series where I am going to explain the concepts of shell scripting and how to write a shell script in Linux, UNIX or Mac based systems. You can also follow this tutorial blog using windows but for that you have to install a bash from.

In this article we will see about select loop in shell scripting and how it is used.

• The syntax of select loop

select <variable_name> in list 
do 
    command1
    command2
    commandN
done

• The list item will be denoted by different numbers, and to select any specific item from that list you have to enter that number.
• Its structure is similar to for loop but the functionality is different.
• It will iterate over the list and give us the menu structure.
• We use select loop with case conditions, because in select loop we give choice to the user and in case condition we perform some task based to some choices

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So this was a basic intro about select loop. Hope you liked it and learned something new from it.

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