I think that's the way it should be, because sort needs the whole output of the loop before it can begin sorting.it looks like echo'ed data is kept in bash memory
i mean BASH takes memory, not sort. sort take 512MB RAM +temp files as i wanted through -S 512m _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"