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Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 19:24:41 +0200
From: Georg Bauhaus <rm.dash-bauhaus@futureapps.de>
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On 24.08.10 19:10, Georg Bauhaus wrote:

> Efficiency of glob is unpredictable.  Linear scans of a directory
> are slightly different in this regard [*].

I meant (forgetting the footnote, sorry):

ls *.foo

may just not work, since glob may hit a memory limit when building the
list of filenames.  On the other hand,

ls | while read filename
  do
    case $filename in
      *.foo)
        ...;;

does not have this problem.