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newaccountname on Oct 23, 2008 | parent | context | favorite | on: GvR's Blog

You didn't need to; unix sort has been able to do this for way more than 10 years =).

westside1506 on Oct 23, 2008 [–]

Well, it was a complicated data format for many 10s of GB of seismic data on machines that probably had 32MB or 64MB of memory. The partial sort and merge did the trick for me.

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