From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2006-01-06T19:18:00+09:00
Subject: Re: How do you sort a text file?

Hal Fulton wrote:
> Robert Klemme wrote:
>> Danny Abc wrote:
>> 
>>> I'm new to Ruby and was wondering how to sort a text file?
>>> 
>>> With UNIX scripts, I just use "cat input.txt | sort > output.txt".
>> 
>> 
>> You are entitled to the "useless cat award".  :-)
> 
> My neighbor's cat won that already.

Oh, on what basis?  Does it catch no mice?

>  > Any reason why you don't
>> just do
>> "sort input.txt > output.txt"?
> 
> Regarding his original question, I think if he has large files to
> sort, he might be well off just using the Unix sort utility. If he
> has complex logic, of course, he can still control it all in Ruby.

+1

> I haven't tested it, but I can't help expecting that on a large
> file, system("sort...") would be the efficient way.

+1

    robert