Creating a Case statement dynamically

[zzapper <david@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi  Z-men


I have script which lists a series of files I might wish to edit

manuals/client-man-admin.tex
manuals/client-man-catalogbasket.tex
manuals/client-man-userguide.tex
quotes/client-admin.tex
quotes/client.tex

I'd like the script to dynamically output a case such


vared -p " Type number to edit or q" -c action
case $action in
 1) gvim manuals/clientman-admin.tex ;;
 2) gvim manuals/clientman-catalogbasket.tex ;;
 etc
 q) exit 0;;
 *) ;; # everything else including return: do nothing
esac

but how to do?

Alternative solutions welcome


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