At that point I think you need to ask yourself why you're using Bash to begin with. If it's just meant to be a quick script that's run occasionally then this is

At that point I think you need to ask yourself why you're using Bash to begin with. If it's just meant to be a quick script that's run occasionally then this is good but probably overkill. If it's going into prod to be run regularly as part of business critical, then it should be in a language that has a less convoluted way to _ls a directory_. There's an inflection point somewhere in there, where it is depends on you.