How to prompt user for sudo password?

Question

My question is how do I implement asking for the sudo password once a selection has been made when running this bash script. Example being if the user selects to search in the /

Answer 1

You could do something like this, though it is a little bit hacky:

#!/bin/bash
function press_enter
{
    echo ""
    echo -n "Press Enter to continue"
    read
    clear
}
selection=
where_selection=
what_selection=
sudo=""
until [ "$selection" = "3" ]; do
    echo -e "Where would you like to search 
    1- Root
    2- Home
    3- Exit

    Enter your choice ---> \c"
    read selection
    case $selection in
        1) cd / ; sudo="sudo"; press_enter ;;
        2) cd /home ; sudo=""; press_enter ;;
        3) echo "Have a great day!" ; exit ;;
    esac
    echo "What is the name of the file you would like to search for?"
    read -r a
    if $sudo find . -name "$a" -print -quit | grep -q .
    then
        echo "You found the file"
    else
        echo "You haven't found the file"
    fi
done

Basically $sudo is an empty string unless the user selects 1, then it will run "sudo". A better way to do this would be to have a second if block that runs the command with sudo if needed.