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From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
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To: Ensel Sharon <user@dhp.com>
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Subject: Re: shell scripting question (mdconfig device choosing)
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Ensel Sharon wrote:
> and I know how to use awk to strip away the leading "md" from each piece
> of the output ... but I do not know how to take output like:
> 
> 8 9 11 14
> 
> and decide that the lowest available number is "0".  How can I do this ?

% echo '9 8 11 14' | sort -nt ' ' | head -1
8

-- 
-Chuck