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Re: join with header line support
From: |
Pádraig Brady |
Subject: |
Re: join with header line support |
Date: |
Fri, 30 Oct 2009 23:24:28 +0000 |
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Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20071008) |
Assaf Gordon wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'd like to suggest a small feature for 'join':
>
> "--header" makes join join the first line from each file regardless of
> the join field and ordering.
> This allows joining files which have header lines in them.
>
> Example:
> ===============
> $ cat 1.txt
> ID Color Name
> 1 green Alice
> 2 red Bob
> 3 blue Carol
> 4 black Dave
>
>
> $ cat 2.txt
> ID Age
> 2 55
> 4 24
I like that.
cheers,
Pádraig.