I don't have a mac so I can't test this, but I assume the mac has a "sort" app somewhat like the *nix app (try "which sort" at a command line, and then "man sort"), then my guess is something like this: 

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict; # https://perlmonks.org/?node_id=11147822
use warnings;

my @files = map "/tmp/11147822.$_.txt", 1 .. 100; # FIXME
my $outpath = "/tmp/11147822.outpath"; # FIXME

open my $fh, '-|', "sort @files" or die;
open my $tosort, '|-', "sort -n -k2 >$outpath" or die;
<$fh> =~ /^(\w+)\s+(\d+)/ or die;
my ($name, $value) = ($1, $2);
while( <$fh> )
  {
  if( /^(\w+)\s+(\d+)/ )
    {
    if( $1 eq $name ) { $value += $2; }
    else
      {
      print $tosort "$name\t$value\n";
      ($name, $value) = ($1, $2);
      }
    }
  }
print $tosort "$name\t$value\n"; # be sure to print last one
close $tosort or die;

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Assuming mac's are sort of built on BSD and still have a command line and have a more or less "sort" app.

In reply to Re^3: Long list is long by tybalt89
in thread Long list is long by Chuma

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