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Please take one step at a time. What you presented in post#16 is NOT the directories from post#12. Use full absolute paths for a test, i.e. paths rooted at / and not using variables to be...

OK, no bashisms. What happens if you create a dave.cfg file in your home directory containing
home/dave/banana BANANA
home/dave/orange ORANGE
home/dave/orange1 ORANGE...

What's your shell?

And: No PM please for technical questions/data.

So, where do we start? Being an electronics engineer, is the assumption correct that you know what a specification is? Loosely phrased, the description of a target (contents, shape, structure,...

So you corrected the most obvious errors in your script, which is good. You are "open for other codes and scripts", which is good, too. Did you consider the "loop advice"?

We still don't know what...

You failed to mention which shell you are using. With a not too old bash that has extended pattern matching with the extglob shell option, and a config file with directory and keyword in it...

And, keyword always the same as the directory name? Should the search respect case or not?
Where should the config file reside?

Could you post an example of your config data, or are you happy with any (new) structure of config file(s)?
Any subdirectories under e.g. /home/banana?

Not sure if I understood correctly. Let me paraphrase:
You have a handful of directories with some files in each. You want to check if those files have exactly ONE keyword in them, each directory...