Partial String Matching In Bash Scripts
To compare two strings in a bash script, you will have a snippet of code similar to the following:
if [[ $(pwd) == "/path/to/current/directory" ]]
then
echo "You are in that directory";
fi
You may only want to do a partial string match. For this, you can use the *
wildcard symbol.
if [[ $(pwd) == *"directory"* ]]
then
echo "You are in that directory";
fi
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