Find person by name in public datasets

Public-Records-Search.sh

# Simple bash script to search fastpeoplesearch
# 
# SETUP
# curl -sL https://bit.ly/3PFCGWh -o ~/records-search.sh && chmod +x records-search.sh && ~/records-search.sh
#
# https://bit.ly/3PFCGWh redirects to https://gist.githubusercontent.com/DGZN/11588c0ead968a1bdb0f0de37badefac/raw/
#

#!/bin/bash

name=""

function find_name_combined {
  echo Searching Public Records for [$name]
  dir="~/.local/share/recordsearch/$name-RECORDS"
  if [ -d "$dir" ];
  then
    rm -rf $dir
  fi
  mkdir -p ~/.local/share/recordsearch/$name-RECORDS
  echo "Searching FastPeopleSearch.com"
  curl -s https://www.fastpeoplesearch.com/name/$name | html2text > ~/.local/share/recordsearch/$name-RECORDS/$name-fastpeoplesearch.com.txt
  echo "---- FINISHED SEARCHING PUBLIC DATA SOURCES -----"
  cat ~/.local/share/recordsearch/$name-RECORDS/$name* > ~/.local/share/recordsearch/$name-RECORDS/$name-combined-data.txt
  cat ~/.local/share/recordsearch/$name-RECORDS/$name-combined-data.txt | sed -e "s/(\/.*/)/#/" | sed -e 's/\[//g; s/\]//g; s/)//g; s/(//g; s/*.*//g' | less
} 

function find_name {
  name=`echo $name | sed -e 's/ /-/g' | tr [a-z] [A-Z]`
  find_name_combined $name
}

function get_name {
  echo Hello, who would you like to find?
  read varname
  echo Ok, lets find $varname
  name=$varname
}

function find_from_file {
  cat $name | while read line
  do
    name=`echo $line | sed -e 's/ /-/g' | tr [a-z] [A-Z]`
    find_name $name
  done
}

if ! grep -Fxq recordsearch ~/.bashrc; then
  echo "Creating recordsearch alias"
  echo alias recordsearch="bash ~/records-search.sh" >> ~/.bashrc && source ~/.bashrc
fi

if [ "$#" -lt 1 ]; then
    get_name
else
  for i
  do
    name+=" $i"
  done
fi

if [[ "$name" == *".txt" ]]; then
  find_from_file $name
else
  echo "FINDING $name"
  find_name $name
fi