I had a read of your wiki article and think I almost understand it. To the left of the parens there's a single letter in that calculator example. That I understand. If you have a) add as part of the case statement is add in that partial case statement so when that selection is made add appears on the screen? If so, I can improve what I've done.
On Thu, 19 Aug 2021, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 08:25:10AM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > On Thursday, August 19, 2021 04:59:19 AM Jude DaShiell wrote: > > > #!/usr/bin/env bash > > > # file: bbc.sh > > > PS3="Enter a number to Choose station: " > > > select station in bbc1 bbc-1-extra bbc-2 bbc-3 bbc-4 \ > > > b bc-4-long-wave-and-shipping > > > bbc-4-extra bbc-5 \ > > > bbc-6-music bbc-world-service quit > > > do > > > case $REPLY in > > > $REPLY==1) > > > mpv > > > > I am not a bash expert (not even close), but I don't see where your > > selection > > (in PS3) gets transferred to REPLY -- shouldn't that happen somewhere > > explicitly? > > The "select" builtin command does it. Read "help select" for the brief > version of the documentation. (The man page's section isn't much larger, > though.) > > Also relevant: https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/115 > >