Note that uutils does not work if the file does not fit into memory.
With GNU coreutils:
$ base64 /dev/zero | head -c 1 | wc -c
1
With uutils doing the same would exhaust your systems memory until either it freezes or oomd kills the process.Note that uutils does not work if the file does not fit into memory.
With GNU coreutils:
$ base64 /dev/zero | head -c 1 | wc -c
1
With uutils doing the same would exhaust your systems memory until either it freezes or oomd kills the process.
For now. There's no reason this won't/can't be worked on in the future.
Which BusyBox, toybox, and coreutils commands fail with data larger than RAM? Has that been part of the spec yet?
Just realized `LC_COLLATE=C sort` must be specified if you don't want it to ignore leading underscores in sorting due to LC_COLLATE=en_US.utf8 being the default these days.