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Re: join problem?
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: join problem? |
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Fri, 16 Sep 2005 09:35:33 -0700 |
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Jorge Infante <address@hidden> writes in
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2005-08/msg00034.html>:
> I'm running:
> join -t "|" -j 1 -a 2 file1 file2
> The result is:
> 163|reg000524
> I have a record with value "163" in file2.
> Is a bug?
No, because join assumes that the input is sorted lexicographically.
Your input was sorted numerically, which is a different thing.
Perhaps "join" should have an option to assume numeric sort, but
that would be an enhancement.
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