Regular expression in file path shell script

bash_bob

I have a list of folders for all clients in Documents, so in ~/Documents/clients/ folder the folders appear like that for example: Angelina_Julie-client23456 Brad_Pitt-client34567 Tom_Hanks-client12345 and so on. Then I have the below script: clientcode="client12345" cdate=$(date +%F) mydir="/home/userA/Documents/clients/$clientcode"_"$cdate/" The problem is that "/home/userA/Documents/$clientcode"_"$cdate/" this path is not found cause there is...

Originally asked by Tak on Stack Exchange (unix) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

Using find: clientcode="client12345" cdate=$(date +%F) mydir="$(find /home/userA/Documents/clients/ -name "*${clientcode}*" -type d)_$cdate" This will find the directory whose name contains clientcode and append _$cdate to the end of it. Note: this won't actually make changes to the directory name. The directory name as it exists in mydir doesn't appear to actually exist.

Full answer by jesse_b: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/528222 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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