Warren Young wrote: > On Oct 25, 2017, at 11:00 AM, Leroy Tennison <leroy at datavoiceint.com> > wrote: >> >> Although "not my question", thanks, I learned a lot about array >> processing from your example. > > Yeah, it’s amazing how many obscure corners of the Bash language must be > tapped to solve such a simple problem. I count 7 features in that script > that I almost never use, because I’d have just written this one in Perl if > not required to write it in Bash by the OP. <snip> Let me say this: among the many reasons I like *Nix: in any other o/s, it's "how co I create this report, and it takes from 2 days to 2 weeks. In *Nix, it's "of all the ways I can create this report, how would I *prefer* to do it...."