#!/usr/bin/env bash # Give file as option 1 file="$1" increasing=0 readarray -t "arr" < "$file" length="${#arr[@]}" for i in $(seq 3 "$length"); do curr="${arr[$i]}" prev3="${arr[$((i - 3))]}" if [ -n "$curr" ] && [ "$curr" -gt "$prev3" ]; then increasing="$((increasing + 1))" fi done echo "$increasing were increasing"