I am trying to make a script which allow me to select files with 2 or more occurrences of a string in their name.
Example:
test.txt // 1 occurrence only, not ok
test-test.txt // 2 occurrences OK
test.test.txt // 2 occurrences OK
I want the script to return me only the files 2 and 3. I tried like that but this didn't work:
rows=$(ls | grep "test")
for file in $rows
do
if [[ $(wc -w $file) == 2 ]]; then
echo "the file $file matches"
fi
done
grep and wc are overkill. A simple glob will suffice:
*test*test*
You can use this like so:
ls *test*test*
or
for file in *test*test*; do
echo "$file"
done
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