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Is it possible to format the STDERR in order to have a better looking menu using the select command?

I have a simple select

    select oChoice in $(<tempMenu.menu) ; do  

      case "$oChoice" in

          *) 

           break

          ;;

      esac

   done

I've tried a trick like:

    exec 3>&1

    select ...

    ...

    done 2>&1 1>&3 | sed 's/^/NICE OUTPUT    /'

But I cannot use escape sequences (i.e. colors), for example

   ...

   done 22>&1 1>&3 | sed 's/^/33[1;33m33[44mNICE OUTPUT    /'

   or

   done 22>&1 1>&3 | sed 's/^/\033[1;33m\033[44mNICE OUTPUT    /'

The escape sequences are not escaped and also the STDOUT is altered because I have customized the PS3 as well.

PS3="$(print \n\r)# $(print "\033[1;33m\033[44m")"$QUESTION"$(print "\033[0m\033[1;1m\033[44m") `tput sc` $(print "")

#$(print "")

# $(print "")

# Status: $status $(print "")

# $(print "")

#~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  `tput rc` "

As far as I understand (Show only stderr on screen but write both stdout and stderr to file) I cannot separate the STDERR from the STDOUT, so, is there a smarter way to create dynamic text-based menus just using the STDOUT? (or an otherway to workaround my issue)

Another way is avoiding the select and make a menu.
Make a shell script for each menu choice (action1.sh, xxx.sh and passwords.sh),
configure them in menu.cfg:

1 action1 Do action 1

2 xxx Another nice item for you

3 passwords Very dangerous

And start a menu with a script that reads menu.cfg

#!/bin/ksh

formatmenu()

{

if [ $# -eq 2 ]

then

            printf "%d) %sn" ${1} "$2" 

    else

            printf "    %sn" "${1}"

    fi

}

showMenu()

{

    echo "Enter 0 to stop or choose beneath."

    cat menu.cfg|while read option proces description

    do

            formatmenu ${option} ${proces}

            formatmenu "${description}"

    done

}



getAction()

{

    showMenu

    while [ ${CHOICE} -eq -1 ]

    do

            read CHOICE?"Please enter a digit: "

            if [[ ${CHOICE} != +([0-9]) ]]

            then

                    CHOICE=-1

                    echo "Invalid, please enter a digit."

            fi

    done

}



performAction()

{

    if [ ${CHOICE} -eq 0 ]

    then

            return

    fi

    process=$(grep "^${CHOICE} " menu.cfg | cut -d  -f2)





        echo "===${process}.sh==="

        . ${process}.sh

}



# Start



export CHOICE=-1

getAction

echo choice=${CHOICE} 

performAction

exit 0