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Hi Chubler_XL,
Your example works fine for the example you've chosen, but, as mattz40 mentioned in post #4 in this thread, it won't work if one or more of the filenames in the lists in the...

First off: you are getting along fine. We all had about the same issues you are experiencing right now when we learned our trade, so don't worry - keep trying and you will sure be giving the answers...

This demo program might help you to your solution:
dir1="holiday.jpg camping.jpg beach.jpg"
dir2="xmas.jpg holiday.jpg"

for FN in $dir1
do
found=0
for FO in $dir2
do
if...

Above won't work as the for loop won't supply file names but just the directory name. If complemented with /*, full path names would be supplied then. You'd have to either cd into the source dir, or...

-f ${dir2}/${file}