Bo Borgerson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> David Muir Sharnoff wrote:
>> I've got 200 1GB pre-sorted files. If I try to merge
>> them with sort -m, it is obvioulsy trying to do too much
>> work: after running for a couple minutes, it has not
>> produced any output but it has made a 5 GB temporary
David Muir Sharnoff wrote:
> I've got 200 1GB pre-sorted files. If I try to merge
> them with sort -m, it is obvioulsy trying to do too much
> work: after running for a couple minutes, it has not
> produced any output but it has made a 5 GB temporary
> file.
>
> When the input is pre-sorted, no
I've got 200 1GB pre-sorted files. If I try to merge
them with sort -m, it is obvioulsy trying to do too much
work: after running for a couple minutes, it has not
produced any output but it has made a 5 GB temporary
file.
When the input is pre-sorted, no temporary file should
be required.
Outp
