Bash matching
From wikinotes
regex... sortof
Bash can be extended to have more fancy glob, but using purely the default shell, this is what we're looking at.
Technically, it is a subset of modern regex. be very careful to test your matches, this does not always behave you you'd expect it to.
[[ "file/path:100" =~ : ]] && echo "match" # if ':' is in string [[ "apple" =~ ap* ]] && echo "match" # ap(any-or-no characters) [[ "apple" =~ ple ]] && echo "match" # if substring of 'apple' [[ "apple" =~ "^apple$" ]] && echo "match" # ^/$ anchors to beginning/end of string [[ "apple" =~ "^[a-z]+$" ]] && echo "match" # regex, as you'd expect