Question

I want to do a loop (for file in *) only 5 times (so it’s not a real loop anymore but however) is there anyway to do this?

Answer 1

Put the files in an array, then slice the array.

$ files=(*)
$ for file in "${files[@]::5}" ; do echo "$file" ; done
あいうえお
0000000000-11-005978.txt
0000000000-11-020832.txt
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