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11-04-2008

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As shopt -s nullglob is not standard, I'd use a test inside the loop:
Code:
for FILE in [AST]*.L1A_[GL]AC* S*.L1A_MLAC*; do
   [ -f "$FILE" ] || continue
   echo "$FILE"
   : ....
done

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