Globbing Vs Ls

Use globbing instead of ls

Instead of using ls -l <pattern> to return a wildcard glob, use the wildcard as it is and avoid ls

#  Documentation
pattern="ex*"

printf '%s\n' $pattern   # not ``ls -1 $pattern''
# > file1.txt
# > file_other.txt

for file in $pattern; do  # definitely, definitely not ``for file in $(ls $pattern)''
	printf 'Found file: %s\n' "$file"
done
# > Found file: file1.txt
# > Found file: file_other.txt

Documentation

• parsing file globs with ls
• https://superuser.com/questions/31464/looping-through-ls-results-in-bash-shell-script#31466