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Some useful commands for manipulating files so I don't have to search for these.

Count the number of files in a directory name:

ls name | wc -l

Display top n sorted filenames:

ls | head -n

Copy top n sorted filenames from this directory into another called dest:

cp `ls | head -n` dest
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