From 9e2f3d59cf249403859916df9756c179753ea7e0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thorsten Töpper <atsutane@freethoughts.de>
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2025 18:16:07 +0200
Subject: split_for_sort: Split a given file into buckets

The target bucket is decided based on the first X characters of a line.
The bucket name gets a prefix defined as argument and can be sorted
faster on weak hardware. Note: This is just a split alternative.

Real world usage in a shell script with a file in which the first 10
characters are the equal in each line, the following 2 bytes are
evaluated for splitting:

split_for_sort TMPSFS 12 raw_data.txt
for f in TMPSFS ; do
    sort -o "${f}_sorted" -u "${f}"
done
\# Rely on the argument resolution to go with lexical order
cat TMPSFS*_sorted > sorted_data.txt
rm TMPSFS*
---
 .gitignore | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to '.gitignore')

diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index c82077c..0047e56 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-bin/*
+out/*
 man/*.1
 man/*.gz
 .gdbinit
-- 
cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2