Performance issues with sort in textutils 2.1
Rob McMillin <[email protected]> Fri, 20 Sep 2002 17:58:07 -0700
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.gnu.textutils.bugs |
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I'm using textutils v2.1 under RedHat Linux v7.2. I was previously using sort as sort -m -k2,2n /tmp/named_pipe1 /tmp/named_pipe2 ... but now the -m option insists on writing temp files, which clobbers performance. Would it be possible to merge on the fly for named pipes?