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Forum: UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers 02-11-2019

Simple conditional yields too many responses

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Then you want something closer to: for i in...

Then you want something closer to:

for i in $birdname
do
if [[ "$REPLY" = "$i" ]]
then
Found = Found + 1
else
NotFound = NotFound +1
...

Forum: UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers 02-11-2019

Simple conditional yields too many responses

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Your 'for' is going to create three data passes -...

Your 'for' is going to create three data passes - one for each element in birdname.
Thus, correct in giving three results.
What were you hoping for, or expecting?

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