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Jan 23, 2020 at 0:56 comment added jhnc Some versions of sort (eg. GNU coreutils) use temporary files and external mergesort if the input is too big to fit in RAM. And most other versions have a -m option so this can be done explicitly by chunking the input (eg. with split), sorting each chunk, and then merging the chunks
Oct 2, 2017 at 16:18 answer added Sarfraaz Ahmed timeline score: 1
Mar 24, 2011 at 13:27 vote accept Šimon Tóth
Mar 23, 2011 at 13:46 comment added Šimon Tóth @gabe Not requiring the entire file to be stored in memory for example.
Mar 23, 2011 at 13:31 comment added gabe. What do you mean by "better"?
Mar 23, 2011 at 3:23 answer added Jonathan Leffler timeline score: 0
Mar 22, 2011 at 23:31 history tweeted twitter.com/#!/StackUnix/status/50338849540407296
Mar 22, 2011 at 23:06 answer added Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' timeline score: 40
Mar 22, 2011 at 22:42 answer added Mat timeline score: 4
Mar 22, 2011 at 22:29 history asked Šimon Tóth CC BY-SA 2.5