bash script how to do wildcard string comparisons or matching
This is a feature that works very well in bash and is easy to do:
*Remember you need the double brackets for this specific test even though a normal if would not require them
variable="hi there"
if [[ "$variable" = hi* ]]; then
echo "yes it contains hi"
fi
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