How to match a file name suffix How to verify if the name of a `.xml` file name ended with `.any-string`? e.g. .previous or .backup or bck12 etc ... I need to print the XML file name except for XML files that end with `.any-string` or have anything after the `.xml` How to verify this with grep or awk or sed or perl or any other idea? Something like file=machine_configuration.xml file=machine_configuration.xml.previos file=machine_configuration.xml.backup echo $file | ..... Examples: 1. `machine_configuration.xml`: yes 2. `machine_configuration.xml.OLD`: no 3. `machine_configuration.xml-HOLD: no 4. `machine_configuration.xml10`: no 5. `machine_configuration.xml@hold`: no 6. `machine_configuration.xml_need_to_verifi_this`: no

Use the regex end-anchor (`$`), e.g.:


echo "$file" | grep '\.xml$'


To find all files ending with "xml", I would suggest using the `find` command, e.g.:


find . -name '*.xml'


Would recursively list all xml files from current directory.