I have a header which I have to add to a sorted file, however if I use
cat header sortedfile > newfile, the operation takes 2 minutes as the sorted file is over 400mb.
I have noticed that when I sort the 400mb unsorted file, this only takes 14 seconds to create the output.
As the creation of the whole file is extremely time critical, I am obliged to find the quickest way.
I thought it might be quicker to cat the file to the sort command to create the final file so I tried this (actual command)
but I dont get the header in the file.
Questions
Will cat to the sort command actually work ?
Will the header remain unsorted.
Alternatively, I can put the header in the file and sort the whole file. Is there any way to sort the file in situ so that a new file is not created ?
cat header sortedfile > newfile, the operation takes 2 minutes as the sorted file is over 400mb.
I have noticed that when I sort the 400mb unsorted file, this only takes 14 seconds to create the output.
Did that 14 second sort write everything to disk too by redirection or just output to your screen? Question might sound dumb, but just the be sure that it is written to disk too.
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Sample Text file
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