[ale] sorting large delimited text files

[fletch at phydeaux.org (fletch at phydeaux.org)]

> I have some text files that I need to sort.  Each file is (roughly) 2200
> pages (134,000+ rows) of comma delimited text.
>
> the text looks like so:
> 2117496.796445,882112.506031,483.908997
>
[...]
> Most likely I will have to sort the files by the third column / number
> (initially at least).
>
> How else can I sort these files quickly?

sort -t, +3 -4 -n myfile

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