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man 3 glob |
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man 3 fnmatch |
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man 1 bash -> read the section called "Pattern Matching" under "EXPANSION". |
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in this case, $(ls) would unnecessarily spawn a subshell for listing files. You |
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can often get the same result by using wildcard expansion (or globbing) like |
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Michal said: |
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for lang in *; do |
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... |
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done |
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It is often faster. |
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Cheers, |
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Patrice |
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Sunday 28 Jun 2015 14:25:25, Johannes Huber wrote : |
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> On Sunday 28 June 2015 04:12:01 Michal Górny wrote: |
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> > > + for lang in $(ls) ; do |
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> > How about... for lang in *? |
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> What is the advantage? |
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> Greetings |
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> -- |
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> Johannes Huber (johu) |
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> Gentoo Linux Developer / KDE Team |
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