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Old 04-26-2008
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Proper fanatics would perhaps prefer

Code:
for n in $(seq 50); do [ -e statistics.$n ] || echo statistics.$n is missing; done
seq is not universal, that's why I started out with Perl; but if you have it, it's excellent for this type of job.