Mac OS X Panther in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition

Name

select

Synopsis

                     select 
                     name [ in 
                     wordlist 
                     ; ] 
  do 
                     commands 
                     done
                  

Choose a value for name by displaying the words in wordlist to the user and prompting for a choice. Store user input in the variable REPLY and the chosen word in name. Then execute commands repeatedly until they execute a break or return. The default prompt can be changed by setting the PS3 shell variable.