Awk and sort (of text files)

[Joe Zeff]

On 06/29/2015 11:57 AM, jd1008 wrote:
> Here is the simplest solution and it does what I want without resorting
> to awk:
> for i in `/bin/ls -1 lists*`; do
> sed '/./{H;d;};x;s/\n/={NL}=/g' $i | sort | sed
> '1s/={NL}=//;s/={NL}=/\n/g' > $i.sorted.txt
> done

One question: why do you give the full path to ls, but not to any of the 
other commands?