I want to write Bash Script with User Input for my assignment called "book store service". Firstly, it has option menu like "add new book name " "author name" "remove book" "update" "search" "show book list" "Exit". If I choice option 1, I've got to input new book's name. How could I write the user input and display output data when I choice "show book list" option. I've got trouble with this Assignment. Pls someone help me to clear about this, that would be really helpful and thankful to all of you.
3 Answers
Take a look at the select statement. It allows you to create a menu.
PS3="Please choose an option "
select option in go stay wait quit
do
case $option in
go)
echo "Going";;
stay|wait)
echo "Standing by";;
quit)
break;;
esac
done
Which would look like:
1) go
2) stay
3) wait
4) quit
Please choose an option
Edit:
One of your options might prompt for user input:
read -rp "Enter a phrase: " phrase
echo "The phrase you entered was $phrase"
Comments
Here is a code example that shows how to read user input: http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/internal.html#READR
You can also use CLI arguments:
test.sh
echo $1
CLI:
$ ./test.sh testinput
testinput
