Requested Help on My Bash Script Please!

Okay, so first of all, here is the Pastebin link.

I'm not sure why it is stopping the script completely after I type any number and press enter. For example, the title pops up, I press the indicated number for the program I wish to use then press enter. But when it should run nmap or hping, it just simply quits and goes back to the default terminal.

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Have you tried running bash -x to see the debugging output?

Using PS3 works:

PS3='Enter a number:'
options=("nmap" "hping" "exit")
select opt in "${options@}"
do
case $opt in
"nmap" )
nmap
;;

"hping" )
hping
;;

"exit" )
clear
exit 0 ;;

esac
break
done

It then tells me

"./advancedportscan.sh: line 86: ${options@}: bad substitution" and I'm not for sure how to fix that. Also, thank you for your reply!

EDIT: Okay, so I have kindof fixed it. I deleted the @ character, and it worked, however...it only shows one option. and that's nmap. (option 1) and if I choose another number (i.e. 2) it just exits.

Ah - sorry, there are brackets in there that were apparently removed by the WonderHowTo auto-formatting. It should be:

"${options[@]}"

Ahhhhh, thank you so much! This helped me out a bunch!

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