How to check weather a string is like test* or test* ot *test* in if condition

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How to check weather a string is like test* or test* ot *test* in if condition

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"if" isn't the best choice for that, I would use "case/esac" for the same. By the way, you mean "whether", not "weather".

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Please give many examples of strings which fulfil your conditions and some which do not. We are unclear whether the asterisk implies a wildcard or whether the asterisk is just a character.

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yes * implies wildcard

the string may be abctest123 or test123 or 123test

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case $string in 
(test*)
 echo "starts with test";;
(*test)
  echo "ends with test";;
(*test*)
  echo "contains test";;
(*)
  echo "doesn't match";;
esac
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hello ,

can use awk

 awk '/^test/{print "starts with test";next}/test$/{print "ends with test";next;}/test/{print "contains test"}'

Otherwise in sh can use parameter expansion ->

if [ ${var%t*} = 'tes' ];then echo 'starts with the test';fi
if [ ${var2#*t} = 'est' ];then echo 'ends with the test';fi

Othewise the case statement is always there as specified above by jilliagre.

Regards,
Gaurav.