bash: how to delete elements from an array based on a pattern

Question

Say I have a bash array (e.g. the array of all parameters) and want to delete all parameters matching a certain pattern or alternatively copy all remaining elements to a new

Answer 1

Here's a way using grep:

(IFS=$'\n' && echo "${MY_ARR[*]}") | grep '[^.]*.pattern/[^.]*.txt'

The meat here is that IFS=$'\n' causes "${MY_ARR[*]}" to expand with newlines separating the items, so it can be piped through grep.

In particular, this will handle spaces embedded inside the items of the array.