How to sort a file which is very huge in size in order of few hundred GB on a machine where memory is very low. Due to this we can not open the file as memory is not sufficient.Any pointers in this regard would be appreciated.
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How to sort a file which is very huge in size in order of few hundred GB on a machine where memory is very low. Due to this we can not open the file as memory is not sufficient.Any pointers in this regard would be appreciated.
If by ‘cannot open the file’, you really mean ‘cannot read/map the entire file into memory’, Google for ‘merge sort’ – it’s useable when the data can only be accessed sequentially.