Dennis F. Kahlbaum wrote:
> The SORT command worked great and it processed the files in less than 15
> seconds each.
Glad to hear it!
Scott Hannahs wrote:
> Actually it does a "radix" sort using files in the /tmp directory. You
> are limited by disk space not RAM. It won't kill you by thrashing the VM.
> Go for the sort command. But make sure you have at least 4 GB of free
> disk space to sort a 2GB file.
>
> Read the man page for "sort" there are a LOT of options.
Thanks for the information.
Unfortunately, none of that is evident from the man page on OS X (in
Panther, at least). I looked for some memory management options, but they
just don't appear in the OS X version. I thus assumed that they must not
exist in Apple's version of "sort".
I'm glad to hear I was wrong.
-Sean
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