Sort function

[muruganr117]

Hi ,

I would like to know whether there is any specific UNIX sort command which will sort huge files.say for ex : 2GB or more size of file. Each record in file is 16747 in length. We have tried with UNIX command sort -S , but it is failing for huge data files. I saw in UNIX man , there is large file option. But i was not able to find the command for operation with largefiles. Could you please help me in the same.

Thank you well in advance...

regards
Murugan R

[chulett]

Talk to your SAs or whomever supports UNIX there. You'll need to up the 'memory' options and probably point to a larger 'tmp' area, from what I recall.

[DSguru2B]

Large files require large tmp space. You can specify a temporary diretor using the -T option. Read about it in unix sort manual pages.