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sort

sort(1) is a POSIX 1003.2 conformant implementation based on -lrecsort by Phong Vo and Glenn Fowler with key encoding by Doug McIlroy. In addition to the POSIX formats, sort also supports fixed length binary record data. It runs faster than /bin/sort for a large class of data, although there are exceptions; please let us know.


Authors

Glenn Fowler, Doug McIlroy, Phong Vo.


Glenn Fowler
Information and Software Systems Research
AT&T Labs Research
Florham Park NJ
September 16, 1999