bash find directories

In the particular case you are looking for a 1) directory which you know the 2) name, why not trying with this:

find . -name "octave" -type d

find ./path/to/directory -iname "test" -type d

I found this very useful for finding directory names using -iname for case insensitive searching. Where "test" is the search term.

try to use

find $path -type d ?

for current directory

find . -type d

find . -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d