Re: [tlug] Limits on file numbers in sort -m

[Kalin KOZHUHAROV <me.kalin@example.com>]

On May 28, 2014 3:05 PM, "黒鉄章" <akira.kurogane@example.com> wrote:
> Regarding the count of occurrences you could pipe the "sort -m ...." into "uniq -c". I've always been annoyed by the format of uniq (a space-padded, fixed-width count as the first column)
>
+1!
It is on my todo list to fix that and submit a patch upstream to add CSV output as well as default sort by COUNT DESC ...

On the original question, if I recall right, presorting each file (in parallel) will greatly improve performance.

Kalin.