-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Paolo Bonzini on 12/5/2008 11:35 PM: > Indeed, they shouldn't have problems because their line length limit is > ~4000 (giving a maximum length of ~2000 bytes for files in the > directory, which is safe). However, note that the script is emulating > uniq, not sort -u. I don't know if this is safe?
ls already sorts its output. In 2.63, we had a no-op sort process: ls | sed | sort (technically, there are instances where sorting after sed is still necessary, but for this particular sed script, all we are doing is deleting lines). Then I changed it to work around the MacOS issue: ls | sed | sort -u at which point, the only thing sort is adding is uniqueness: ls | sed | uniq or with fewer processes: ls | sed - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkk6jywACgkQ84KuGfSFAYAwwwCfa436fEUyA5CuZCCoWq9uKvcx y9EAnjydONlRO2O0Dsb4mXD9cYg2osJz =MVqs -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----