Wildcard in variable, Shell bash, how to do ? Variable=$variable2* [duplicate]

Question

For me it worked:

diretorio=$(echo 'test 123'*)

but not worked when i used variable in quotes

Var2="test 123" 
diretorio=$(echo '$Var2'*)

How to solve it?

Answer 1

The mistake in your glob is that

diretorio=$(echo '$Var2'*)

is a shot in /dev/null, because the shell don't expand variables in single quotes.

So :

diretorio=$(echo "$Var2"*)

Learn the difference between ' and " and `. See http://mywiki.wooledge.org/Quotes and http://wiki.bash-hackers.org/syntax/words

Answer 2

May I suggest an alternate approach? Instead of making a space-separated list of filenames (which will cause horrible confusion if any of the filenames contain spaces, e.g. "test 123"), use an array:

diretorio=("${Var2}"*)
doSomethingWithAllFiles "${diretorio[@]}"
for umDiretorio in "${diretorio[@]}"; do
    doSomethingWithASingleFile "$umDiretorio"
done