select
Bash builtin construct for creating menus. More information: https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html#index-select.
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Create a menu out of individual words:
select {{word}} in {{apple}} {{orange}} {{pear}} {{banana}}; do echo ${{word}}; done
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Create a menu for picking a file or folder from the current directory:
select {{file}} in *; do echo ${{file}}; done
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Create a menu from a Bash array:
{{fruits}}=({{apple}} {{orange}} {{pear}} {{banana}}); select {{word}} in ${{{fruits}}[@]}; do echo ${{word}}; done
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