> P.S. The prize has yet to be awarded. Ben's explanation is close,
> but his wording (including that "perhaps") makes me hold out for
> one or two details.
Tip: there were LOTS of files, each one with a filename of a
> string of decimal digits, the values of which grew by +1 with
> each successive message as it arrived (and they had not been
> sorted or renamed). For instance, the messages bridging New
> Year's 2006 were:
> <snip> <size> <date> <filename>
> -rw------- 1 sconce users 4442 2005-12-31 12:15 4572
> -rw------- 1 sconce users 3867 2005-12-31 12:15 4573
> -rw------- 1 sconce users 3495 2005-12-31 16:16 4574
> -rw------- 1 sconce users 4469 2006-01-01 15:29 4575
> </snip>
I haven't been following this thread ver closely, but the thing
that usually messes me up is grepping on file * doesn't give me
a numerically sorted list, i.e. you might have had things expand to
grep Hosstraders 1 10 100 1000 10000 10001 ... 9998 9999
and the Hosstraders Email you missed was in a 10000+ file.
So, how many messages per year are there on this list? (Yeah, yeah, I know
the qualitative answer is "too many!") I'll spend less time reading, that
way I'll reply less too. Win-win.
-Ric Werme
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