Bash question

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 09:51:03PM -0500, jim wrote:
> Thanks. I would prefer not to have to do an ls  for each 7 digit number.
> There are at least 100 of these unique 7 digit numbers in the directory.
> I was thinking I may have to use the linux " uniq " command in here to
> somehow first get all the unique numbers??

100 is irrelevant to the system.  If you were talking 100000 you would
have a point.  We do have disk caches after all.

sort -u is sort and uniq combined.

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Len Sorensen
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