06-18-2016
Two comments without being able to dive deeper into your logics nor being able to test anything:
- Using the file variable in several places (select file ...; for file ...; read -r file ...) you overwrite the previously defined value. This may not be want you want...
- in your while read -r ... loop (BTW, why a loop here?) without redirection you read from the terminal. Is that what you want ?
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