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in thread sort large file
...unless the file is truly huge. Sort has its limitations - for instance, on solaris it tends to use /var/tmp to store that temporary file, and if you're dealing with a few gigs worth of data, you can easily run out of even disk space for the tmp files (painful, true story). Not that I have a better solution :)
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Re: sort large file
by Anonymous Monk on Apr 01, 2004 at 23:03 UTC | |
Re: Sort large file
by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Apr 01, 2004 at 17:02 UTC |
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