linux - how to merge 2 big files - Stack Overflow

linux - how to merge 2 big files - Stack Overflow

Can we make this better than doubling the size of both files?

Yes, we can use the append (>>) operation instead.

cat file2 >> file1  

That will still result in using all the space of consumed by file2 twice over until we can delete it.

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