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...s modified -- alex] If this is already known, my apologies. It seemed very strange that this worked, so I thought it would be mentionable. On many linux systems(Redhat imparticularly) updatedb is run nightly around 1:00. When it sorts the files that find gets, it creats a few files in /tmp called sort0<pid>000{1,2,etc}. Each is around 512k. The first file is created and filled, then if necassary, another is created and so on until it has your whole filesystem into a nice database. Well, once the first file is created you can easily guess what the next filename will be called as only the las...