Thanks for the advice above, it got me further along but I've run into another wall or two. Here's where I'm at so far
The first problem is I can't get the IF statement to work no matter where I put quotes, parens, brackets, or curly brackets. Also switching -eg for =, ==, or / makes no difference. I get either a 'too many parameters on line 16" error or it drops right through and declares every file unique when 10 out of 20 are duplicates.
Second problem is I have a file named 'space test dupe10.jpg' that I named to see how it would handle spaces in file names. I have a simplified version of the script (no IF statement) that just echoes the variables as it increments through them, and it appears to treat space, test, and dupe10.jpg as 3 different files.
This isn't a life or death situation so I greatly appreciate any and all advice. I'm just updating an electronic picture frame that hangs on the living room wall and runs for 4 hrs per night which makes adding pictures a pain since it has to be done while it's on. With this script I can put the pics on my NAS and they'll get copied over when the frame boots. I can do that now but duplicate file names are a concern. I made this thing before you could buy them, from instructions in a physical popular mechanics magazine. 15 or so years and several thousand pics later and you can imagine how many times my wife (a photography hobbyist no less) has tried to load "flowers.jpg" on it.
Greetings -
I am a newbie in shell scripts. I have been thru the whole forum but there has been no similar query posed.
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