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Yeh I guess thats what must have happened. I've rerun it now and (belt and braces) included the path in the output filename too so we'll see what happens. Thank you
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Yeh I guess thats what must have happened. I've rerun it now and (belt and braces) included the path in the output filename too so we'll see what happens. Thank you

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Re ran it and it worked perfectly!
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I left a unix processing running overnight to sort a large file.<br />
I used the command sort &lt;filename&gt; -o &lt;filename2&gt;<br />
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The process has stopped running, however filename2 isnt to be found!<br />
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Did I need to specify a location for it? I assumed it would be placed in the &quot;current&quot; directory.<br />

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I left a unix processing running overnight to sort a large file.
I used the command sort <filename> -o <filename2>

The process has stopped running, however filename2 isnt to be found!

Did I need to specify a location for it? I assumed it would be placed in the "current" directory.


Where is my sorted file?

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