Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All..I need a help i am trying to find a word using below script whereas the word exists in my file nitin.txt as a directory but still i am getting "word not found" output..Your suggestions welcomed.:

#to check for existence of nitin


#!/bin/bash
cd /apps/uat1/deploy/app

ls -lrt > nitin.txt


FILE=/apps/uat1/deploy/app/nitin.txt

grep -w "*nitin*" $FILE >/dev/null

if [ $? -eq 0 ]
then
echo "Word found!"
else
echo "Word NOT found!"
fi

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