On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, 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.

Get GNU sort.exe and uniq.exe and use them as in:

uniq thefile.dat >tmp1.dat
sort tmp1.dat >out.dat

If you do not care about duplicates you can skip uniq.

Peter

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