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Find substring in shell script variable

I have a string

$VAR="I-UAT";

in my shell script code. I need a conditional statement to check if "UAT" is present in that string.

What command should I use to get either true or false boolean as output? Or is there any other way of checking it?

Solution

  • What shell? Using bash:

    if [[ "$VAR" =~ "UAT" ]]; then
    echo "matched"
else
    echo "didn't match"
fi