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  • Thanks, those two work perfectly. Will still need to dig and explore to determine what the culprit is, but those are much needed tools. Commented Nov 29, 2010 at 22:11
  • FYI, the second awk command is taken almost verbatim from the "Word Sorting" page of the GNU awk manual. Commented Nov 29, 2010 at 23:18
  • Those two examples were enough to get my head around the syntax w/the awk man page to tweak them as necessary. I've found the culprit: lots (30, at this time) of 1.2GB files like /private/var/folders/zz/zzzivhrRnAmviuee+++++++++++/-Tmp-/termIdFile.XXXXXX which are open by mds (Spotlight), but result in a file-not-found error when trying to list/stat them. So, I just need to determine why mds is holding onto them. Commented Nov 30, 2010 at 16:11