Thursday, April 1, 2010

Sorting in a huge data file

Instead of writing a perl code that uses Bubble Sort/Quick Sort/or any other sorting algorithm, simply use "sort" command in unix.

## unix sort
## sort -gk 4,4 inputfile -o outputfile
## -g :general, handles scientific notation
## -k 4,4 :start and end on 4th field

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