To get retro, "whiptail" has been around forever (newt, or dialog) but that ends up with more horrible incantations like "whiptail --menu $(seq 1 10 | while rea

To get retro, "whiptail" has been around forever (newt, or dialog) but that ends up with more horrible incantations like "whiptail --menu $(seq 1 10 | while read x; do echo $x $x; done)" - though whiptail does get you more options, like radiobox/checkbox instead of just menu, if you want multiple select - the focus is on text-ui for a user to select things that happens to produce an output, so it has lots of options for customization of screen layout rather than just being the kind of basic line-picker that you'd actually want day-to-day...