How to check the extension of a filename in a bash script?

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if [ "$file" == "*.txt" ]

like this:

if [[ $file == *.txt ]]

That is, double brackets and no quotes.

The right side of == is a shell pattern.
If you need a regular expression, use =~ then.

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