There is a use case for sort that might be worth mentioning. If someone needs to sort billions or trillion of lines of data, it can be done with coreutils sort.

There is a use case for sort that might be worth mentioning. If someone needs to sort billions or trillion of lines of data, it can be done with coreutils sort. The trick is to use —-temporary-dir and potentially use ulimit to restrict the process memory. Might be worth mentioning under sort as it’s a neat trick.