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Is there Unix utility for sorting large files containing fixed length binary records?

In other words, I'm looking for something like sort(1) but for binary files with fixed length records.

I could convert the files into text, then sort using sort(1), and then convert back into the binary representation, but I'm looking for something more time and space efficient.

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