From: Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com>
Subject: Re: sorting large numbers of large records
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 01:53:19 GMT
Date: 2003-07-30T01:53:19+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jyFVa.715$7h6.251@nwrdny03.gnilink.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yecispkluok.fsf@king.cts.com>
Keith Thompson wrote:
> If you're using GNU sort, the length of each line can be unlimited;
So there :-)
> Finally, I'm not sure what GNU sort (or any other Unix-like sort) does
> with input too big to fit into memory;
As far as I know, UNIX sort has always been able to sort arbitrarily large
files by doing what I suggested in an earlier message - sort pieces of the
original into temporary files, then merge them together.
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Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-29 13:10 sorting large numbers of large records Brien L. Christesen
2003-07-29 14:30 ` Larry Kilgallen
2003-07-30 0:32 ` Keith Thompson
2003-07-30 1:53 ` Hyman Rosen [this message]
2003-07-30 14:55 ` Matthew Heaney
2003-07-30 16:41 ` Chad R. Meiners
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2003-07-28 15:29 Brien L. Christesen
2003-07-28 15:35 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2003-07-31 15:22 ` Brien L. Christesen
2003-07-28 16:25 ` Hyman Rosen
2003-07-28 20:30 ` John R. Strohm
2003-07-28 20:52 ` Hyman Rosen
2003-07-28 23:47 ` Matthew Heaney
2003-07-28 23:33 ` Matthew Heaney
2003-07-28 23:43 ` Matthew Heaney
2003-07-29 0:42 ` John Cupak
2003-07-29 3:38 ` Matthew Heaney
2003-07-29 8:32 ` Preben Randhol
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