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		cperciva on Feb 16, 2008 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Obama: A Bubble Sort is the Wrong Way to Go Where's the C library function for "sort the N-byte records in the file named 'foo' which is too large to fit into RAM"?

bayareaguy on Feb 16, 2008 | [–]

Perhaps not in libc but on my freebsd box /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/sort/sort.c delivers the goods if foo has newlines.

foonamefoo on Feb 17, 2008 | [–]

system('sort filename');

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