You may be safer with ls -1 (ls hyphen one) which just lists the names for the files, then pipe to a "while read". This is in case you have filenames containing space characters which will break the "for" statement or you have so many files that the "for" statement becomes too long.
You have an issue with $entry which is not referred to at all and is probably surplus.
It would also be better to place $2 in to a named variable for readability.
Notice how we put double quotes round any parameter (including filenames) to preserve any embedded space characters.
I like your use of comment lines. Very good.
Bump: bakunin has made a valid point. The cd could cause the "./search" statement to fail unless the script called "search" existed in that directory.
At the start if the script (or in your .profile) you can change $PATH to ensure that you find your scripts.
Let's say that your scripts are in directory /home/Breakology/scripts .
If we want to refer to our scripts by name we can adjust the PATH.
The script called "search" can then be called as "search" not "./search".
Addition Information Added:
(I have absolutely no idea where the "bump" came from and I am sending this post to test a theory).
Hello there,
As a newbie:
The directories in PATH can be hard to distinguish when printed out as
one line with colon .Please, can i have a sample script to display
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.
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