Bash 带有通配符的脚本

Question

here's an example of my script:

#!/bin/bash
cd /upper/folder.test*/subfolder
ls

The folder.test folder s actually named something like "folder.test13kwekrjk1234jk3", and it's completely random, so I want to use a wild card. The "Upper" folder is in root, where I want it and the CD command works outside the script (and I'm executing it in the root directory, just like the script)

However, when I execute (using./) it gives me:

"- No such file or directory] cd:/upper/folder.test*/subfolder"

What gives? It works outside of the script but it won't work inside the script? Should I be doing this a different way inside the script?

Answer 1

You could do this instead because wildcards are literally wildcards, their behavior is hard to predict and less reliable.

FOLDER=$(ls -1 /upper/folder.test*/subfolder | head -n1);
cd "$FOLDER"
ls

Answer 2

I once had a related problem when I tried to cd to my home directory using "~" in a bash script.

This code worked in the terminal, but not in my script:

cd ~/Documents/important_folder* 

However, the below code worked fine in the script:

cd /home/my_username/Documents/important_folder*