I'm not sure is sorting first actually buys you anything. But it should
work fine. Keep 3 shells open, 1 to run the command from, one running top,
and the other ready to kill it :).
I'd be more concerned with how you are collecting this data - i.e. how
easy is it for th esame person to provide di
I think I have this right, but before I run it on a 53-meg text file, I
want to make sure. On a test of about a dozen lines, it seems to work
just fine.
I need to sort a file that is 456,193 lines long. People were allowed
to enter a contest, but not more than once a day. Their names and the
dat
