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by CGamesPlay 931 days ago
An ironic near-miss on the UNIX philosophy. There's a great UNIX tool that will handle sorting arbitrarily large files!
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It will mess up array indices, though.
Wouldn’t “sort -n” work with indices?
It's tricky to specify the sorting criterium: you have to indicate the column. Gron's output looks like this:

a.b[0].c.d[0]: ... a.b[0].e[0].f: ...