How to place a wildcard character in a bash string -

i have directory usr/src/codeand since use different , people can place anywhere in work space want make long src/code available in directory work such */src/codehere have tried , has not worked:

#!/bin/bash      directory="/src/code"     if [ -d "\*$directory" ];         # enter here if $directory exists, if contains spaces             echo "true"     fi  #!/bin/bash  directory="*/src/code" if [ -d "\$directory" ];     # enter here if $directory exists, if contains spaces         echo "true" fi   #!/bin/bash  directory="\*/src/code" if [ -d "\$directory" ];     # enter here if $directory exists, if contains spaces         echo "true" fi 

globs can match multiple files, it's better store them in array:

#!/bin/bash shopt -s nullglob globstar    # enable recursion , 0 matching directories=( **/src/code ) case "${#directories[@]}" in     1) echo "found directory: ${directories[0]}" ;;     0) echo "there no matches..." ;;     *) echo "there more 1 match!" ;; esac