Re: [Help-bash] The best way to get a file in a directory

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Thu, 22 Nov 2018, Peng Yu wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'd like to get a file in a directory. It can be any file in the
> directory. I don't care what it is as long as it is in the directory.
>
> I don't want to use * to get all the files and then pick one from them
> as this can be slow when there are many files in a directory. Is there
> an efficient way in bash to get a file in a directory? Thanks.

Perhaps bash should have an option to not sort filename expansion: 'shopt -s 
nosortglob'?

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