[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > 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
Yes, that would be a nice feature to add. Perhaps you could write the code and documentation? The behavior should be consistent with that of sort -n and/or sort -g, and should use similarly-named options. Of course join can't sort numerically by default, because that would break existing scripts and POSIX doesn't allow it. See <http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/join.html>. But it sort numerically if you pass it an option. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
