Hello, I am running now a local blast pipeline using MacOs. The goal here is to take interval of the 5 best hits and then extract the SNP variants from multiple vcf.gz files. But I am facing an error which I cannot solve. Below are the codes that I used:

#!/bin/bash

##Functions to automate if start position is bigger than stop position, then switch the interval into stop first then start. 
#1 hit blast n
REF=/Users/path/to/the/reference/genome
DBBLASTN=/Users/path/to/the/respective folder/
QUERY=/Users/path/to/the/folder/containing/gene/fasta/of/interest
OUTPUT=/Users/path/to/output
OUTPUTBLASTN=/Users/path/to/output/blastn/result
FASTAOUTPUT=/Users/path/to/output/blastn/result/Output.blastn.fasta

 blast_n_one_hit () {
        #1st hit blastn result fasta file extraction 
        if [ $START1 -gt $STOP1 ]
            then 
                samtools faidx $REF $SEQ1:$STOP1-$START1 > $FASTAOUTPUT/1.hit.$OUTPUTNAME 
            else




samtools faidx $REF $SEQ1:$START1-$STOP1 > $FASTAOUTPUT/1.hit.$OUTPUTNAME
    fi
}



 #2 hit blast n
    blast_n_two_hit () {
        blast_n_one_hit

        #2nd hit blastn result fasta file extraction
        if [ $START2 -gt $STOP2 ] 
            then 
                samtools faidx $REF $SEQ2:$STOP2-$START2 > $FASTAOUTPUT/2.hit.$OUTPUTNAME
            else 
                samtools faidx $REF $SEQ2:$START2-$STOP2 > $FASTAOUTPUT/2.hit.$OUTPUTNAME
        fi 
    }

   #How to extract the fasta file from the reference file (S.chilense) within the specific interval. 
    #Specific interval is the interval from the best 5 hits blastn output 
    create_output() {
      ONAME=$(basename "$1")
        echo $ONAME
        echo "$OUTPUTNAME"
        echo "--*****--"
    }
    ## end function declaration


#We need to cut the column 2,9 and 10 from the tabular output from blastn results. Col 2: Sequence ID, Col 9: Sequence star, Col10: Sequence stop
#The following command is to make the variables, which are needed for making the interval to extract the sequence from the reference 

#Variables for the first top hit 
for file in $OUTPUTBLASTN/*.new.vs.ref; do #Change here 

    OUTPUTNAME=${ONAME%.new.vs.ref}.fasta #Change here for the new files 
    lineNumber = wc -l $file
    create_output $file

    echo "First top hit"
    SEQ1=$(cut -f 2 "$file" | head -1 | tail -1)
    echo "Sequence name:$SEQ1"
    START1=$(cut -f 9 "$file" |head -1 | tail -1) 
    echo "Seqstart:$START1" 
    STOP1=$(cut -f 10 "$file" | head -1 | tail -1)  
    echo "Seqstop:$STOP1"
    echo "--*****--" 


    if [[lineNumber <= 2]] then
        blast_n_one_hit
        continue
    fi

#Variables for the second top hit
    echo "Second top hit" 
    SEQ2=$(cut -f 2 "$file" | head -2 | tail -1)  
    echo "Sequence name:$SEQ2"
    START2=$(cut -f 9 "$file" | head -2 | tail -1)  
    echo "Seqstart:$START2" 
    STOP2=$(cut -f 10 "$file" | head -2 | tail -1)   
    echo "Seqstop:$STOP2"
    echo "--*****--" 


    if [[lineNumber <= 3]] then
        blast_n_two_hit
        continue
    fi
#Variables for the third top hit 
    echo "Third top hit"    
    SEQ3=$(cut -f 2 "$file" | head -3 | tail -1)  
    echo "Sequence name:$SEQ3"
    START3=$(cut -f 9 "$file" | head -3 | tail -1)  
    echo "Seqstart:$START3" 
    STOP3=$(cut -f 10 "$file" | head -3 | tail -1)   
    echo "Seqstop:$STOP3"
    echo "--*****--" 

    if [[lineNumber <= 4]] then
        blast_n_three_hit
        continue
    fi
    echo "Extracting the fasta files from the reference is finished!"
done 

So, I run this code and then end up with the following error:

zsh: lineNumber command not found
zsh: create_output command not found

Can anybody please tell me how can I correct that?