globbing is as fast as find and is faster than find _if_ you do the same glob twice (b/c it's cached); i'm assuming the images dir is not full of subfolders otherwise i would would do
echo images/*/*
if the dir structure gets any deeper than 2 levels, i'd use find
while loops typed from the command line are a p.i.t.a. if you don't bg them initially and want to bg them later; you need to put them inside brackets or into a function
using a script and a log, if something goes wrong while it's running, you can restart after looking at the log; you can't do that with a loop
Do they mean the same thing?
As for cat, the utility, I'm afraid we'll never stop seeing people doing
even when it makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.
If it did, I might as well do
I mean, why not? It "looks nicer" than
Programmers love their cats.