Make bash expand Wildcard in script command?

Question

My script receives a wildcard as a parameter and I need to apply the find command on it. The problem is that if I don't quote the parameter, shell expands it relative to the current directory, but if I do, the find command doesn't expand it at all.

My code currently looks like this:

find /bin/"$1"

and $1 is *sh* If I run it as /bin/*sh* in terminal, it works as intended.

Answer 1

The -name test is what expands wildcards when you use find . Try this:

find /bin/ -name "$1"