cd: bad substitution in shell script

Question

Error

./sample.sh[245]: cd: bad substitution

This is line 455:

BSOld=`cd /opt/siebel/15.0.0.0.0/ses/siebsrvr/webmaster*;ls -lrt | grep *srf* | tail -1 | awk '{print $9}'`

Answer 1

This issue is * . Without * it works.

BSOld=`cd /opt/siebel/15.0.0.0.0/ses/siebsrvr/webmaster;ls -lrt | grep *srf* | tail -1 | awk '{print $9}'`