I'm new to unix and I'm writing a bash script that will prompt 5 command menu. I got stuck on the last two command that ask for the emalier with a subject & an attachment and the menu that's surrounded by a loop so that when one option is concluded it will go back to the menu until the user selects an option x to exit. Any help would be appreciated. Here is an example of the program I wrote so far but got stuck on number 4 and 5: #!/bin/bash echo -e "\n COMMAND MENU\n" echo " 1. Current date and time" echo " 2. Users currently logged in" echo " 3. Name of the working directory" echo " 4. Email someone with a subject and an attachment" echo -e " 5. Press X to exit\n" echo -e "Enter 1-5: \c" read answer echo case "$answer" in 1.) date ;; 2.) who ;; 3.) pwd ;; 4.) 5.) *) echo "There is no selection: $answer" ;; esac ----------------------- Thanks

#!/bin/ksh # set -x localmail() { echo "What is the mail recipient?" read mailto echo "What full path to the file would you like to attach?" read fullpath attachment=`echo $fullpath | awk -F "/" '{ print $NF }'` echo "What is the subject of the mail message?" read subject echo $mailto $fullpath $subject $attachment (uuencode $fullpath $attachment; echo "text") | mail -s "$subject" $mailto } echo "" echo "COMMAND MENU" PS3='Your choice? ' select ans in \ "Current date and time" \ "Users currently logged in" \ "Name of the working directory" \ "Email someone with a subject and an attachment" \ "Exit" do case $REPLY in 1 ) date ;; 2 ) who ;; 3 ) pwd ;; 4 ) localmail ;; 5 ) exit 0 ;; * ) echo "Sorry, no default selection" ;; esac done

The script work perfect. Thanks for your help David.