Damn, that didn't work at all. After creating a suitably sized file with:

   perl -le 'for (0 .. shift()) { $num = int rand(100_000); print qq{12-25-2005\t12:30 PM\t$num\tC:\\someplace\\somefile.txt}; }' 8500000 > file.txt

I found that just loading the file into memory took up 1.7gb on my system! I tried a few variations without getting anything reasonable. I haven't really done a lot of Perl dev on this box - it's a Fedora 8 machine with the Fedora-built v5.8.8. Could be there's something wrong with it.

-sam

In reply to Re^6: Sorting a (very) large file (better*2) by samtregar
in thread Sorting a (very) large file by condar

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