Script not working

[Ray Parrish]

Hello,

I am having difficulty with a bash script. I want to loop through a file 
line by line looking for a certain word or phrase to be on a line. When 
I find the match, I want to load the next line into xclip.

Here is my code so far -

#!/bin/sh
saved=" "
while read f
do
    echo $f
    echo $1
    if  "${1}" = "${saved}" ; then
        xclip -in -selection clipboard $f
    else
        saved="$f"
    fi
#
done < /home/ray/.hidden/file.txt

I am passing the script the command line parameter "U S Bank" which 
finds it's way into $1 no problem. The problem is that even when both 
echo statements put out the value

U S Bank

for $f and $1 the if statement bombs with the following errors.

Facebook
U S Bank
/home/ray/.hidden/LoadClip.sh: 14: U S Bank: not found
U S Bank
U S Bank
/home/ray/.hidden/LoadClip.sh: 14: U S Bank: not found

What am I doing wrong that makes that if statement insist on failing to 
detect that $saved and $1 are equal to each other???

I changed the code to the following -

#!/bin/sh
saved=" "
while read f
do
    echo "\$f" $f
    echo "\$1" $1
    echo "\$saved" $saved
    if  "$1" = "$saved" ; then
        xclip -in -selection clipboard "$f"
    else
        saved="$f"
    fi
#
done < /home/ray/.hidden/file.txt

Now the output is as follows

$f dl;fjew547;pd;lfwpfnls
$1 U S Bank
$saved U S Bank
/home/ray/.hidden/LoadClip.sh: 15: U S Bank: not found

Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

Later, Ray Parrish

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