You need an inner loop
Try not use use a lot of child processes when bash does the same thing as a builtin.
Your code did this: put all filenames into variable BAM, zap just one. You need to read and then zap each file inside some type of loop.
I need to learn how to type and fix errors on the fly. I had to edit this post three times
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