更通用的是：

function menu(){
    title="Question time"
    prompt="Select:"
    options=("Yes" "No" "Maybe")
    echo "$title"
    PS3="$prompt"
    select opt in "${options[@]}" "Quit/Cancel"; do
        case "$REPLY" in
            1 ) echo "You picked $opt which is option $REPLY";;
            2 ) echo "You picked $opt which is option $REPLY";;
            3 ) echo "You picked $opt which is option $REPLY";;
            $(( ${#options[@]}+1 )) ) clear; echo "Goodbye!"; exit;;
            *) echo "Invalid option. Try another one.";continue;;
         esac
     done
     return
}

echo "Please enter some input: "
read input_variable
echo "You entered: $input_variable"

一种简单的方法是使用xargs-p或gnu-parallel-interactive。

我更喜欢xargs的行为，因为它像其他交互式unix命令一样，在提示符后立即执行每个命令，而不是收集yes以在最后运行。（在完成所需任务后，可以按Ctrl-C键。）

例如。，

echo *.xml | xargs -p -n 1 -J {} mv {} backup/

Bash为此选择了。以下是如何在脚本中使用它：

select result in Yes No Cancel
do
    echo $result
done

这是它使用的样子：

$ bash examplescript.sh
1) Yes
2) No
3) Cancel
#? 1
Yes
#? 2
No
#? 3
Cancel
#?

您可以编写一个函数来测试：

confirm() {
  local ans IFS=;
  while read -rp "$1" -n1 ans;
  do printf '\n';
    case $ans in [Yy]) return 0;;
      [Nn]) return 1;;
    esac;
  done;
}; ## Usage: if confirm "Are you sure? "; then ...

if confirm "Does everything look ok...reboot now? [Y/n]"; then
  echo "rebooting..."
  sleep 5
  reboot
fi

受到@Mark和@Myrdin的回答的启发，我创建了一个通用提示的函数

uniprompt(){
    while true; do
        echo -e "$1\c"
        read opt
        array=($2)
        case "${array[@]}" in  *"$opt"*) eval "$3=$opt";return 0;; esac
        echo -e "$opt is not a correct value\n"
    done
}

这样使用：

unipromtp "Select an option: (a)-Do one (x)->Do two (f)->Do three : " "a x f" selection
echo "$selection"