How to check if a string contains a substring in Bash

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I have a string in Bash:

string="My string"

How can I test if it contains another string?

if [ $string ?? 'foo' ]; then
  echo "It's there!"
fi

Where ?? is my unknown operator. Do I use echo and grep?

if echo "$string" | grep 'foo'; then
  echo "It's there!"
fi

That looks a bit clumsy.

Nov 26, 2020 in Python by anonymous
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1 answer to this question.

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string='My long string' if [[ $string == *"My long"* ]]; then echo "It's there!" fi

Note that spaces in the needle string need to be placed between double quotes, and the * wildcards should be outside. Also note that a simple comparison operator is used (i.e. ==), not the regex operator =~.

answered Nov 26, 2020 by Gitika
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