Greetings, After much hair-pulling I have discovered what seems to me bizarre (or at least anti-intuitive) behavior of join: apparently, numerically sorted keys cause join to fail, silently.
Given two files: file1.txt: 50 100 200 300 file2.txt: 90 100 200 300 join file1.txt file2.txt yields no result (!) Whereas: file3.txt: 100 200 300 50 file4.txt: 100 200 300 90 join file3.txt file4.txt yields: 100 200 300 Unless I'm missing something (environment variables?), it appears that numerically sorted keys are ignored by join. I am running join (textutils) 2.0 under Mac OSX 10.3.9 and join (textutils) 2.0.21 under cygwin. This appears to be the same problem discussed by Jorge Infante on 11 August. It would be quite helpful for me if if I could use join with numerically sorted key fields, without having to alpha sort the files on the key fields, perform join, then numerically resort the files on the key fields Many thanks if any ideas! Sean DALY [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
