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GNU sort(1) and very large files
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kj |
Subject: |
GNU sort(1) and very large files |
Date: |
Tue, 30 Aug 2005 21:25:10 +0000 (UTC) |
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nn/6.7.2 |
How does sort(1) handle the sorting of files that are too large to
fit in memory? Or, for that matter, how does it sort a piped input
that is too big to fit in memory all at once?
Thanks!
kj
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NOTE: In my address everything before the first period is backwards;
and the last period, and everything after it, should be discarded.
- GNU sort(1) and very large files,
kj <=