TMOUT within script file misbehaves for the select command. How to fix it?

**UPDATE** - looks like this is something peculiar with bash 4.3.42 as it works fine with 4.3.46. Leaving this post for those who run into the same issue in future. When I run this command in bash command line it works properly: % (TMOUT=3; s="no selection"; select s in a b c ; do break ; done; echo $s) 1) a 2) b 3) c #? no selection % _ Result: displays *no selection* and comes back to command line. When, however, I place it a script, and execute it, it repetitively requests selection. % cat a.sh #!/bin/bash (TMOUT=3; s="no selection"; select s in a b c ; do break ; done; echo $s) % ./a.sh Result: 1) a 2) b 3) c #? 1) a 2) b 3) c #? 1) a 2) b 3) c #? ^C % _ Why it so? My main question is - **how to make it work in a script?!** **UPDATED** % bash --version GNU bash, version 4.3.42(1)-release (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. % uname Linux lx1 2.6.32-642.6.2.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Oct 24 10:22:33 EDT 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux