> 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 _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/