GNU bug report logs - #11433
Bug in GNU sort with large value for the -S option

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Rich Burridge <rich.burridge <at> oracle.com>

Date: Tue, 8 May 2012 16:20:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Rich Burridge <rich.burridge <at> oracle.com>
Subject: Re: bug#11433: Bug in GNU sort with large value for the -S option
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.
This bug report was last modified 13 years and 69 days ago.

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