Re: How to process two files of over a million lines for changes

I applied the usual, build an array, sort, take out the unique addresses, write them to a new file.

For me, "the usual" would be:

    $ sort -u file > file.$$ && mv file.$$ file
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Would even work without much ram.

Abigail

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Re: Re: How to process two files of over a million lines for changes by punkish (Priest) on May 23, 2004 at 13:20 UTC
Ya, but I am still at the "learning from the Cookbook stage." ;-). Now, thanks to you, I went to the terminal and learned all sorts of nice things about 'sort.' No more using Perl for this problem. Gives meaning to the old saying, "Give a newbie some Perl knowledge, and all problems start looking like Perl problems."	[reply]