I am taking my first stab at writing a bash script. I am writing a script which will install all of the packages in chapter 5 of lfs. I am having problems geting out of the SELECT menue statements (or whatever you guys call them. I made a function called "decompress" which asks if you want your files decompressed, and does it if you do (then moves the orig. files into another folder). Anywase, I can't figure out how to get out of the SELECT statement..... no matter what option i choose, it still brings me back to the menue. I've also tried "exit" after the "if"'s, but that just puts me back to the command line. I have quite a few more functions that i would like to call after "decompress", can anybody help me out? here's decompress:

function decompress {

echo Do you need the files to be decompressed?

OPTIONS="Yes No"

select opt in $OPTIONS; do

if [ "$opt" = "Yes" ]; then
mkdir compressed

for i in $( ls | grep .tar.bz2 );
do
tar -jxvf $i
mv $i compressed/
done

for i in $( ls | grep .bz2 );
do
bunzip2 $i
done

for i in $( ls | grep .tar.gz)
do
tar -zxvf $i
mv $i compressed/
done
clear
echo "All files ending with '.tar.bz2' and '.tar.gz' have been decompressed"
echo " and placed into 'compressed/' folder"
echo
echo " files ending in '.patch.bz2' have been decompressed"

elif [ "$opt" = "No" ]; then
clear
echo MAKE SURE all of your source files are decompressed!!!
echo
echo

else
clear
echo BAD OPTION... Do you want your files decompressed?
fi
done
}

Try using select in the following manner :

select:
select x [in list]
do
commands
done
Korn shell only. Display a list of menu items on standard error, numbered in the order they are specified in list. If no list is given, items are read from the command line (via "$@"). Following the menu is a prompt string (set by PS3). At the PS3 prompt, users select a menu item by typing its line number, or they redisplay the menu by typing RETURN. (User input is stored in the environment variable REPLY.) If a valid line number is typed, commands are executed.

Example

PS3="Select the item number:"
select event in Format Page View Exit
do
case "$event" in
Format) nroff $file | lp;;
Page) pr $file | lp;;
View) cat $file
Exit) exit 0;;
* ) echo "Invalid selection";;
esac
done

The output of this script would look like this:


1. Format
2. Page
3. View
4. Exit
Select the item number:

I guess i just needed to throw in some "break"'s ex:

else
clear
echo BAD OPTION... Do you want your files decompressed?
fi
break
done
}