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Translating from one batch file system to another can be interesting. As a former admin, I had to do that with Novell scripts and convert them to MSWindows batch files when we were changing systems. Someone wrote a batch file for emulate a menu to launch the browser to go to different sites that could of been a bit more precise for dos, but I decided to translate it to bash.

Dos:

@echo off
color 0e
Title Website Starter (by Prof. Pickle)
:Menu
cls
echo ---------------------------------------------------------------------
echo This is the Website starter
echo.
echo Select the number of the website you wish to select
echo Or press E to exit.
echo ---------------------------------------------------------------------
echo.
echo.
echo 1. facebook
echo 2. youtube
echo 3. google
echo 4. redtube
echo 5. other
set /p web=
If %web% EQU 1 start www.facebook.com
If %web% EQU 1 goto Menu
If %web% EQU 2 start www.youtube.com
If %web% EQU 2 goto Menu
If %web% EQU 3 start www.google.com
If %web% EQU 3 goto Menu
If %web% EQU 4 start www.redtube.com
If %web% EQU 4 goto Menu
If %web% EQU 5 goto other
If %ERRORLEVEL% NEQ 0 goto ERROR
If %web% EQU E goto exit
If %web% EQU e goto exit
goto please
:other
cls
echo You have chosen other
echo.
echo Type the web address of the website (www.website.com)
set /p otherweb=
start %otherweb%
If %ERRORLEVEL% NEQ 0 goto ERROR
:exit
cls
echo Goodbye!
pause > nul
exit
:ERROR
cls
echo Sorry, an error has occurred.
echo.
echo If you were using the "other website" function you may have
echo typed it incorrectly.
echo.
echo Press any key to go back to menu
pause > nul
goto Menu
:please
cls
echo Please press a number from 1-5
echo.
pause
goto Menu

Sure the author worked really hard on it. then I thought how would I do a quick equivalent using bash. To be fair his batch code could of been improved with a while loop.  You can replace firefox for the browser of your choice.  This is what I came up with:

Bash: 

#!/bin/bash
#
# Script to run firefox and load a specific site.
#
while :
do
clear
echo "************************"
echo "* My website loader    *"
echo "************************"
echo "* [1] Facebook         *"
echo "* [2] Google           *"
echo "* [3] Twitter          *"
echo "* [4] Youtube          *"
echo "* [5] Some other site  *"
echo "*                      *"
echo "* [0] Exit/Stop        *"
echo "************************"
echo -n "Enter your menu choice [1-5, or 0]: "
read yourch
case $yourch in
1)  firefox http://www.facebook.com & ;;
2)  firefox http://www.google.com & ;;
3)  firefox http://www.twitter.com & ;;
4)  firefox http://www.youtube.com & ;;
5) echo  ; read -p "Enter website: " ws ; firefox $ws & ;;
0) exit 0;;
*) echo "Oopps!!! Please select choice 1,2,3, 4 or 5";
echo "Press Enter to continue. . ." ; read ;;
esac
done

Which generates a screen something like this.

************************
* My website loader    *
************************
* [1] Facebook         *
* [2] Google           *
* [3] Twitter          *
* [4] Youtube          *
* [5] Some other site  *
*                      *
* [0] Exit/Stop        *
************************
Enter your menu choice [1-5, or 0]: