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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Performance problem with removing duplicates in a huge file (50+ GB) Post 302752669 by Corona688 on Monday 7th of January 2013 11:16:00 AM
Old 01-07-2013
As is, the data is going to be very difficult to manage.

My suggestion would be to try transforming the data into something more suitable for sort -u, then transforming it back after.
 

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NAME

       libxslt - library for transforming XML documents

DESCRIPTION

       The  libxslt library is the XSLT library developed for the Gnome project.  XSLT itself is a declarative language for transforming XML docu-
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FILES

       /usr/lib/libxslt.so   shared object library

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