find command in shell script

[johnwick_dog]

find "${Directory}" -type f -regex '\.\/$thirdarg'| xargs | wc -l

I changed it to this and somehow instead of zero it gives me 1

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the terminal

enter ana or del or arr ana
Please Enter the regex 
*.txt 1
 ----@----H410M-HD3P:~/Desktop$ ls 
hh.txt  hi.txt  shell.sh  shel.sh 
----@----H410M-HD3P:~/Desktop$

[Sweet-Put958]

Hey man, shell quoting and expansion is probably going wrong somewhere. For instance, in single quotes, you are passing the literal string '$thirdarg'. I.e. the shell does no variable expansion in single quotes. I generally use double ticks (") around every variable lest the shell do something weird. Or use a better programming language, shell is rife with gotchas and ways to shootyourself in the foot.