Do not use that approach unless it's acceptable to lose an entire file (either because the data is not of any importance or you have backups). If the pipeline is killed for some reason, you will lose data.
Personally, I would go with sort -m. As drl mentioned, this situation is dealing with two sorted files (the large pre-sorted file and a word which could easily be written to a temp file).
Regards,
Alister
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readahead
readahead(8) System Manager's Manual readahead(8)NAME
readahead - file preloader for boot process optimization
SYNOPSIS
readahead [options] <file-list> [another-file-list [...]]
DESCRIPTION
readahead is a files preloader designed to optimize the disk I/O during the boot process.
OPTIONS -b, --build
build optimised files list only, without sorting.
-s, --sort
build and sort list of files only (implies -b).
-o, --output <file>
write sorted list of files to file.
-d, --dont-sort
preload files described by an already sorted files list.
-h, --help
print the usage information.
-v, --verbose
enable the verbose mode.
-t, --timing
report time spent on each operation.
-m, --maxsize <max size>
maximum size in KiB a file can be in order to be preloaded, default is 10240.
<file-list> [another-file-list [...]]
One or more files containing the list of files to be preloaded or sorted. The files list can be generated by readahead-collector(8).
FILES
/etc/default/readahead-fedora
SEE ALSO readahead-collector(8), readahead(2),
AUTHORS
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
Ziga Mahkovec <ziga.mahkovec@klika.si>, Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>,
This manual page was written by Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
July 2011 readahead(8)