> If you're just iterating over a directory and checking some files Unfortunately, I very frequently see this in shell scripts... ls $SOME_PATH | awk...

> If you're just iterating over a directory and checking some files Unfortunately, I very frequently see this in shell scripts... ls $SOME_PATH | awk... I even once saw someone use ls to figure out if a certain file was a symlink by looking for "->"! That kind of stuff doesn't typically happen in other languages.