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[sinck@ugive.com]

\_ > This works well. David's one liner is probably better because I'm
\_ > manipulating 60+MB files and I don't really want the whole thing in one
\_ > var :).
\_ 
\_ I'm puzzled by this statement.  In the script I sent, you ended up
\_ with the names of all of the files in a single (array) variable so
\_ they could be sorted later on.  The actual contents of the files were
\_ never actually read.  Surely you don't mean that your filename data is
\_ 60+MB, do you?

Yeah, it's a great new compression scheme: the data in the file is
transfered from file to file name, making it a file system storage
thing.  But the stored file itself is *real* small.  As small as you
want even.  :-)

\_ Regardless, you really do need to do the sort, because you can't rely
\_ on find (or Perl's File::Find) to list the files in any particular
\_ order.  

Good point.  I think there is an order, but it'll vary depending on
directory writes/rewrites, and is of only marginal usefulness to A-Z
thinking.

David