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chii on May 29, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Removing duplicate lines from files keeping the or...

I don't believe that - how does it spill to disk? TMP directory? You can still sort if you don't have any disk space (until you run out of swap?) from what I recall.

JdeBP on May 29, 2019 | [–]

Your recollection is either limited in what implementations you have encountered, or faulty.

* https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/450900/5132

chasil on May 29, 2019 | [–]

The man page for sort has parameters to adjust the location of the temporary files.

These are only used when the allowed memory buffer is exhausted.

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