Bash script scenarios to remove temporary files in a loop due to unexpected globbing behavior
I'm wondering if anyone has experience with I'm not sure how to approach I'm working with an scenario with my Bash script where it fails to delete temporary files as expected during a loop..... I'm using a wildcard to match files, but it seems the globbing behavior is not functioning correctly. Here’s a snippet of my script: ```bash #!/bin/bash for file in /tmp/myapp/tempfile*; do echo "Processing $file" # Simulate processing sleep 1 if [[ -f "$file" ]]; then rm "$file" echo "Removed $file" else echo "No file found to remove" fi done ``` When I run this script, I expect it to process and remove all files matching the pattern `/tmp/myapp/tempfile*`. However, I keep getting the following output: ``` Processing /tmp/myapp/tempfile1 Removed /tmp/myapp/tempfile1 Processing /tmp/myapp/tempfile2 No file found to remove ``` The first file gets processed and removed as expected, but for the second file, it reports "No file found to remove" even though the file exists. I suspect it might be related to the way I'm using the `rm` command or the way the loop handles the files after one is deleted. I've tried adding a debug line just after the `rm` command to list the contents of `/tmp/myapp/` after each deletion, and I can see that the second file is still there. Is there a known scenario with how Bash handles wildcard expansions in loops when files are deleted? I'm using Bash version 5.0.17 on Ubuntu 20.04. Can anyone guide to figure out what's going wrong here? For context: I'm using Bash on Windows. How would you solve this? My development environment is Ubuntu 20.04. Any pointers in the right direction? Could someone point me to the right documentation?