[PLUG] shell scripting help

[Michael Lazin <microlaser@gmail.com>]

I am trying to write a shell script to automate the formatting of a text file in a certain way that is useful to me.  the complicated egrep while not ideal does the job when run alone, where $i is the name of the file I want to grep, but when I try put it together in an easy to run script it doesn't do anything.  Can someone please point me in the right direction?  Thank you.  

#!/bin/bash

echo "What is the filename you want to grep?";

read $i;

OUTPUT="$(egrep '\b[A-Z]+| [0-9:]+ \b' $i | grep -v anaged | grep -v No| sort -u | grep -v Na | grep -v Ser | grep -v Ty | grep -v Contact)";

echo "${OUTPUT}";

done

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Michael Lazin

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