On Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 8:45 PM Randy Bush <ra...@psg.com> wrote: > > can you point me to where it is documented that `find` is guaranteed > to produce an ordered list? >
I don't have any such documentation or belief. my belief is that uniq will count non-consecutive matches, that's what I'm relying on. however, sorting first doesn't hurt anything, so have at it. yeah, awk is often a more appropriate tool for this type of job, it's just that I happened to learn sed first, so I default to that. it's the same reason I use vi instead of emacs, it's largely down to complete coincidence. -wes