go-topn

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TopN

A simple application to find the top n numbers in a given file that has one integer on each line.

Usage

Generate a file of random numbers:

shuf -i 1-1000000000 -n 1000000000 -o <filename> # 9.2 GiB

Build the application:

go build ./...

Run the application for a given file:

./go-topn -f <filename>

Set the number of top entries to return (default=10):

./go-topn -f <filename> -n <number>