I know that you don't believe me yet, but about 299 cycles from now (when your numbers grow to 4 digits instead of 3 digits) you will find that your code stops working unless you pay attention to my suggestion...
I know you say you prefer tail over head, but your script will run faster if you use:
and on Solaris systems, you should get the same results without the -1 option (filtered either by head or by tail):
Note that the ls -1 option is on by default whenever standard output is not a terminal (and the pipe that is the standard output of ls when its output if fed to head or tail is not a terminal).
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