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On Sun, 11 Jan 2026 19:31:48 -0500, c186282 wrote:

>    Works well ... but you can't run it inside Python,
>    you'd have to make a shell script. If there are more than 255 hits
>    then there might be issues sending a simple return value. Indeed this
>    creates a text rep of a number ...
> 
>    If I have the time I'll try comparing the speed of the two solutions
>    - 100 iterations maybe.

I've never needed to run it in a Python script. I was just curious if a 
bash shell function would get the job done. There are a few other things I 
should create functions for rather than manually typing the commands like 
mounting the music files on my nfs server.