So I have a file which has some person's full names (first name and last name) in it on various seperate lines which starts with some specific pattern. With the help of grep command I have succeeded in extracting only the full names and storing it in variable. Now I need to access every full name and check if it matches with some value from another variable. I tried using for loop but it treats first name and last name as seperate items because they have space in between. I need to get first and last name together and check it with other variable.
Eg. After running grep command I get 3 values and are stored in variable names.
Abc xyz
Pqr def
Lmn ghi
Running the for loop as below:
for n in $names; do
echo $n
if [ "$n" = "Abc Pqr" ]; then
echo "something"
fi
done
Gives following output:
Abc
xyz
Pqr
def
Lmn
ghi
I want $n
to have both Abc xyz
(first name and last name) together so that I can check the condition.