bash: choose default from case when enter is pressed in a “select” prompt

Question

I\'m prompting questions in a bash script like this:

optionsAudits=(\"Yep\" \"Nope\")
    echo \"Include audits?\"
    select opt in \"${optionsAudits[@]}\"; do
         


        

Answer 1

This will do what you are asking for.

options=("option 1" "option 2");
while :
do
    echo "Select your option:"
    i=1;
    for opt in  "${options[@]}"; do
        echo "$i) $opt";
        let i++;
    done

    read reply
    case $reply in
        "1"|"${options[0]}"|"")
          doSomething1();
          break;;
        "2"|"${options[1]}")
          doSomething2();
          break;;
        *)
          echo "Invalid choice. Please choose 1 or 2";;
    esac
done