In this tutorial, the Bash script checks if the string contains a substring.

There are multiple ways to check if a string contains a substring.

Check substring exists in a string using the comparison operator

  • string variable is defined with text
  • using if statements, compare string with substring using comparison operator(==) and wildcard(*)
  • finally, print the string if the string contains
  • echo “w3schools exists in main string” fi

## Find string contains substring using regular expression
`=~` operator used for searching substring for a given string.

used if block in a batch script.

Here is an example code
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mainstring='Welcome to w3schools'
if [[ $mainstring =~ "w3schools" ]]; then
  echo "w3schools exists in main string"
fi

Substring checks using grep command

grep command search for a given string and is piped to the main string to compare it.

mainstring='Welcome to w3schools'

if echo "$mainstring" | grep -q "w3schools"; then
  echo "w3schools exists in main string"
fi