How do I expand both the variable and the wildcard in a bash string?

Question

I want to store in the TEMP variable the result of the following command:

TEMP="$(ls $dest_dir.*)"

The issue here is that only the variable is expanded, not the * wildcard. What I get from the expansion is:

dir_01.*

where dir_01 is the value in dest_dir. And that makes the ls command to fail.

How can I have the wildcard expanded as well?

Answer 1

try this:

TEMP=$(ls ${dest_dir}.*)

As others noted though, parsing ls output is generally not a good idea..