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Re: globbing in conditional expressions

Peter Stephenson wrote on Wed, May 07, 2014 at 15:44:07 +0100:
> matches=(fubar(N/F))
> [[ -z $matches ]]

All three solutions first set an array to the result of the glob.  Is
there a solution that short-circuits, i.e., that returns as soon as a
single matching filename is found?

This matters when the glob is matched against a large number of files.
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