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To the Op: All of your other tests use single brackets. Check out chrism01's post, and make the adjustments.
Also, you never answered what shell you were using.
I don't know if this was a bad copy and paste job, you're missing some stuff:
You're missing the done that goes with do. You're also missing two fis.
Adding those to the end of your code, assuming nothing else is missing, the script works for me with bash. I get no error about -f. Without adding those three keywords, I get "unexpected end of file".
Anyway, double brackets are better / more robust and I would urge the OP to use them in all cases.
FWIW I was originally taught this on a course at Hewlett-Packard many years ago (technically for ksh, but the same logic applies)
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