From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2007-08-12T09:01:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Sorting a logfile, how would you write it?

On Aug 11, 2007, at 15:30, William James wrote:
> On Aug 11, 7:15 am, Robert Klemme <shortcut...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> It's a one liner:
>>
>> ruby -i.bak -e 'puts ARGF.readlines.sort_by {|l| l[/^\d+/].to_i}'  
>> file
>
> It's my understanding that when you use -i, a temporary file
> is created, the original file is deleted, and the temporary
> file is renamed.  Doesn't this cause unnecessary disk
> fragmentation?

If I had a filesystem where I had to worry about fragmentation I  
wouldn't care.  The amount of time spent figuring out some best way  
to "fix" it is going to be less than the time running a defragmenter  
will take.

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