What does cd $(ls -d *) command do?
 

Dear All,

I'm very new in Linux OS, recently, I was try to understand one shell script, there I found one command "cd $(ls -d *)" can you please explain the command?
Thanks in advance.

answer
 

well, the $( ... ) means to execute this command first; ls -d * shows a listing of every file and, if it's a directory, only show the directory name and not what is inside the directory (that's what the -d does), so what the command does in the script is it finds the first directory and enters it I'm guessing to do commands inside. If that helps any.

Stop using that script, it is poorly written

That little bit of 'code' only works if a single directory in the current dir.

Post the script so we can fix it, or point out alternatives