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awk -F'\n' '{
print $2, $1, $3, $4
}' OFS='\n' RS= ORS='\n\n' infile

I completely missed that the send, was being placed on its own line in the output!! Initially I was using spaces to separate the fields and realised that there were embedded spaces and when I...

$
$ cat datafile
;Canyon
::grand::
Send, Canyon
Exit

;Elevator
::lift::
Send, Elevator
Exit

;Office
::9to5::
Send, Office
Exit

;Cabin
::log::
Send, Cabin

If you are maintaining the file, and thus have control over it's format, I'd suggest keeping your "source" as one record per 4 line entry like this:


;Canyon|::grand::|Send,|Canyon|Exit|...

Could this help you?
echo 'example.jpg:QVC,honeywell-labs.com,COM,blah' | awk -F"[:,]" '{for(i=1;i<=NF;i++) { print "fld"i,"-",$i}}'

This code seems strange.... n=$(echo $line) What is its function when n="$line" would seem on the face of it to suffice?

file=${n%,*}
dest=${n#*,} And if you're trying to read fields splitting...

If you want to use parameters, a function would be better than an alias. Not all shells have them but bash definitely does. You can use them like little callable scripts you put in your .bashrc
...

I dont get what you mean by "enter the [your-file-name] and [source-URL] parts on the same line with the "homeperm"

Oh, you mean, not executing stuff below the loop during the loop? Yes, that's normal.

Did you notice that there is a missing double quote on the last echo in the script? I would have expected you to have seen an error, but the behaviour might be exactly as you described all caused by...

It's not supposed to do that -- something else is going on.

I don't think this is doing what you think it's doing:
if [[ $MANY == *PhotoFiltre* ]] Asterisks there won't match against $MANY, they...