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I've never heard of your use case before--that is interesting.

Though I'm not sure I see why the "%5d" method is hard to parse...

  nl /usr/share/dict/words | head -20 | sort -n
seems to work ok. "cut -f 2" and "cut -c 8-" also seem to work well in this case.



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