bash ~ How to search through files in a directory

Question

I have a list of files

shopping-list.txt
our-shopping-list.txt
test.txt
my-test.txt

I want to run myscript shopping and get the two files that have the word shopping. I want to run myscript our list and get just the one file.

at the moment I have this

if [[ $fs =~ .*${*}*.* ]]; then
        echo $fs
fi

It works a bit, but it would not give me our-shopping-list if each variable has a gap ie. myscript our list it would work if I typed myscript our - list

I have a big list of files and want to find the one I need by guessing the name

my attempt to apply @pacholik's code

snippetdir="~/my_snippets/"
    for filename in $snippetdir*; do
        file=`basename "$filename"`
        fs=${file%.*}
        for i in ${*}; do
    for j in *${i}*; do
        if [[ $fs =~ .*$j*.* ]]; then
                echo $fs
            fi      
        done
        done
    done

@AvinashRaj `${*}` means any variable.Your if statement results in same problems — relidon, Mar 21 '16 at 13:30
I don't get it. What do you want to search if the user specifies several parameters? — choroba, Mar 21 '16 at 13:45
@choroba sorry, words, like my example works if I search `shopping` but not if I search `our list` — relidon, Mar 21 '16 at 13:49

tripleee · Answer 1 · 2016-03-22T10:03:32.280

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Here's a simple brute-force loop.

for file in *; do
    t=true
    for word in "$@"; do
        case $file in
          *"$word"*) ;; 
          *) t=false; break;;
        esac
    done
    $t && echo "$file"
done

I believe this should be portable to any POSIX shell, and potentially beyond (old Solaris etc).

edited Mar 22 '16 at 10:03

answered Mar 21 '16 at 15:45

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score -1 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:23

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Using just bash expansion (only you have to evaluate twice). Bash join from here.

files=`IFS=* eval 'echo *"${*}"*'`

Then you can iterate over $files

for i in $files; do
    echo $i
done

edited May 23 '17 at 12:23

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answered Mar 21 '16 at 13:55

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Thanks @pacholik I don't seem to know how to incorporate that to my code, Can you check the code I added in my answer? – relidon Mar 21 '16 at 14:33
@relidon: Edited. I've misunderstood it before. – pacholik Mar 21 '16 at 15:20

bash ~ How to search through files in a directory

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