I think it may be faster to load data files if I presort them. I'm having trouble getting the sort command to work. Specifically when trying to use a pipe field delimiter...
For example, I want to sort the data file test.txt by the second column:
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bash-3.2$ cat test.txt
G|1
H|50
K|22
I|2
B|300
Z|4
P|200
bash-3.2$ sort -t| +1 -1 test.txt > test1.txt
bash: +1: command not found
sort: option requires an argument -- t
Try `sort --help' for more information.
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