Re: gsort problem (TAKE 2)

[Jim Meyering]

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
...
>> (gdb) print merge_buffer_size
>> $1 = 185835729
>
> Wow.  That is a huge number.  It indicates that there is at least one
> line of text in your file that is 185 MB long.  Or, that there is a
> bug in 'sort' or in your compiler or debugger or whatnot.
>
> Can you check all the lines in your file again?  Something like this
> should do it:
>
> gawk '{if (maxlen < length) maxlen = length} END { print maxlen}' bigfile.txt

Or this:
  wc --max-line-length bigfile.txt
aka
  wc -L bigfile.txt