On Mon, Aug 08, 2011 at 09:25:48AM -0400, shawn wilson wrote: > On Aug 8, 2011 12:11 AM, "Ramprasad Prasad" <ramprasad...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Using the system linux sort ... Does not help. > > On my dual quad core machine , (8 gb ram) sort -n file takes 10 > > minutes and in the end produces no output. > > I had a smaller file and 32g to play with on a dual quad core (dl320). Sort > just can't handle more than 2~4 gigs.
You keep saying this ... Gnu sort really can handle very large files. I have even tested it to make sure. You may need to configure things slightly. You may need to locate some temporary disk space. You may prefer to do things another way. But if you just want to sort a file, sort will do it for you. -- Paul Johnson - p...@pjcj.net http://www.pjcj.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
