SC2143

if [ "$(find . | grep 'IMG[0-9]')" ]
then
  echo "Images found"
fi

if find . | grep -q 'IMG[0-9]'
then
  echo "Images found"
fi

The problematic code has to iterate the entire directory and read all matching lines into memory before making a decision.

The correct code is cleaner and stops at the first matching line, avoiding both iterating the rest of the directory and reading data into memory.

None.