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Old 09-13-2019
You lost me there...can you post the entire script, along with how you intend for it to be called?

You could also add a "set -x" line before your 'if' statement so you can see what values it's comparing to see if it's what you expect.
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Old 09-13-2019
Sorry about confusing you 😄
After these issues I try to export this part in new and separate script, and just cleanup destinations with rm command and then run if(s)


Code:
#!/bin/bash  
rm -rf /home/users
for var in "$@" ; do
    T1=$1
    T2=$2
    if [ $T1 = "File1" ]; then
        cp file1 /home/users
    else      
        if [ $T2 = "File2" ]; then
            cp file2 /home/users
        ....
        fi
    fi 
done

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Originally Posted by eckertd
You lost me there...can you post the entire script, along with how you intend for it to be called?

You could also add a "set -x" line before your 'if' statement so you can see what values it's comparing to see if it's what you expect.
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