bash grep

How do I grep a given path and not the contents of the file in bash? ls won't work because the path is actually an input file, $1. Thanks.

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Some greps have the -q or --quiet option for this purpose. Besides, if you have to redirect stdout, you should redirect stderr, too.

OP should be careful with those regexes. Use ^ and $ to mark the beginning and end of the line, and use the dirname and basename commands to grab the parent directory and the filename, respectively (echo `basename $1` | grep -q lol).