bash limits ?

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Thu, 9 Sep 2004, Peter L. Peres wrote:
>
> The exact command I'm using is:
>
> SORTED=$(find $TMPDIR/* -type f|grep -E [0-9]+|cut -d'/' -f4|sort)

     What error message is it giving you?

     And wouldn't this do what you want:

SORTED=`find $TMPDIR -type -f -name '*[0-9]*' -printf "%f\n"`

> where the argument of find should expand to no more than 100 entries (102 
> with . and ..). the entries are guaranteed unique so that's not a problem. 
> The cut -f4 matches several slashes which are in TMPDIR and leaves just the 
> [0-9]{8} filename part to sort. Unfortunately basename cannot be used in a 
> pipe (why did they write it like that ? - I should write a replacement that 
> can be used in a pipe !).

awk -F/ '{printf $NF}'

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