Subject: Re: bug#11433: Bug in GNU sort with large value for the -S option

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 08 May 2012 14:22:55 -0700

tags 11433 notabug
close 11433
thanks

On 05/08/2012 10:05 AM, Rich Burridge wrote:
> how is it capable of sorting the 5GB
> file on such a system?

If you don't specify -S it should work fine;
it uses temp files.

Closing the bug as it seems that it's not a bug.