in reply to Sorting big text lists

Why use perl for this trivial piece of work? The usual sort command in *nix will do the job by default (or if UserID is numeric and -n is needed)

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Re: Re: Sorting big text lists
by KristiePi (Initiate) on Jul 30, 2002 at 23:49 UTC
    I'm working on the same project with Infinity. How would we do this sort command in *nix? I think we may have already tried this.
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      man sort

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