09-19-2013
That said looking at your script now, do you mind explaining what $( ls -v ) is supposed to give and what OS we are dealing with ( and the shell used perhaps?) because -v is not implemented on AIX or HP-UX (11.11...) and on solaris10 its a -l equivalent except that it displays also ACL stuff... but my guess would be a linux simple sort ls in which case your script is not working because $i is the name of the file! in which case line$i_Ux.xy would be lineline0_Ux.xy_Ux.xy for your first occurence which it cant find to test...
My 2 cents...
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