On 05/08/2012 09:01 AM, Rich Burridge wrote: > $ /usr/bin/sort -S 4G <input >output > /usr/bin/sort: -S argument `4G' too large
I don't observe this behavior with sort 8.16 on CentOS 5.8 on x86-64. Perhaps you're running on 32-bit platforms, for which 4 GiB is indeed too large? If so, 'sort' is operating correctly.
