Trying to identify file types(command line arguments) and count how many there are
 

Write a script that will take a list of filenames as arguments and output a count of how many of them are regular files, and how many of them are scripts (if the file is executable, it will be assumed to be a script file)

counts always come back as 0

regCount=0
scriptCount=0
for arg in $@
do
if [ "$1" = "-f" ] # checks to see if a regular file
then
regCount+1 # adds to count
shift # shifts arguments
elif [ "$1" = "-x" ]
then
scriptCount+1 # adds to count
shift # shifts arguments
fi
done
echo Regular files: $regCount
echo Script files: $scriptCount

Homework?

Haha, yeah it does sound like a homework assignment.

But in any case you can find both totals with one line each, using ls and grep. And there are possibly even more elegant methods.

Yes homewok

Any pointers?

Try
http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/fto.html

That helped thanks