Robin Norwood writes: > Samuel Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hi ya, > > > > I'm teaching myself Perl and I have a log file around 1GB that I need > > to sort by month | date | time | byte size. So far I have parse the log > > for "bytes" since this is all that I need but I can't get it to sort > > like I want. [...] > First, I hope I'm understanding you correctly - you have this file, in > 'some order', which you need to sort by month, then by date, then > time, then bytce size. If that's not right, please enlighten me. If > I understand your problem, however, read on - [...] > Bad news: it's not going to work for you, because it's going to curl > up and die when it tries to load a GB file into RAM, copy it, sort it, > and spit out another copy. [...]
What other approaches might be possible? The first that comes to mind for me is don't wait until you have a 1GB log file; if you do this on a daily basis.... My second thought is can you open the file, read one line at a time and then write these lines to one of several smaller files based on the first sort criteria; thereafter then finish sorting the sub-files? -- Kevin Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - www.iu-bremen.de -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
