awk
sed
grep
sort

Unix.

See the book "The UNIX Philosophy" by Mike Gancarz -- it's what Unix was
designed to do down to its very core roots.

On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 17:31, Brendan Moran wrote:
> Does anyone know of an algorithm for sorting extremely large files of
> linebreak-separated, case-sensitive ASCII values?
>
> I have a file that is 3,480,231kB of unsorted ASCII values, and I need it
> sorted... and, yes, I do have some idea of the time that this will take.
>
> I'm using WinXP for this, so win32 compatible utilities are a good thing
> for me.
>
> Thanks
>
> --Brendan
>
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