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bash pipeline: syntax error near unexpected token 'else'
You have a spurious fi (or else) in the middle of your block.
Shellcheck does point this out as its very first error:
Line 44:
else
^-- SC1009 (info): The mentioned syntax error was in ...
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bash pipeline: syntax error near unexpected token 'else'
Not an answer, just a suggestion of an enhancement to the code Chris Davies provided - instead of writing essentially the same loop+grep+zip multiple times, even without using a function you could ...
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bash pipeline: syntax error near unexpected token 'else'
I've had a go at attempting to convert your script to use shell functions and to use nested case statements instead of if statements. I've also fixed numerous quoting errors, but I may have missed a ...
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bash pipeline: syntax error near unexpected token 'else'
And here's my attempt to tidy up a little. I quoted all (or at least most) variables, I replaced your CAPS names with lower case since it is bad practice to use capitalized names for unexported shell ...
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