Bash globbing files only?

[Cameron Simpson]

On 30Jan2007 16:43, Steve Friedman <steve at adsi-m4.com> wrote:
| Note, that find also solves another problem:  namely, that if the globbing 
| generates a line length beyond the max for bash (in either the for or the 
| concatenation), then the script will fail.  This won't happen with find.

That's pretty big. Note that the for loop is _not_ subject to the
command line exec argument length limit, because no program is being
exec()ed.
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