select

Bash builtin construct for creating menus. More information: https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html#index-select.

• Create a menu out of individual words:

select word in apple orange pear banana; do echo $word; done

• Create a menu from the output of another command:

select line in $(command); do echo $line; done

• Specify the prompt string for select and create a menu for picking a file or folder from the current directory:

PS3="Select a file: "; select file in *; do echo $file; done

• Create a menu from a Bash array:

fruits=(apple orange pear banana); select word in ${fruits[@]}; do echo $word; done