[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > This suggests that > the join command has a maximum number of lines it can read, is this correct?
It depends on your machine and OS. For example, if you have many lines with the same key 'join' has to keep them all in memory, and if they don't fit in memory it will fail. It has to count the lines, too, and the counter is of limited size. > From my test, it turns out to be somewhere around 6600 lines after which > the program terminates. Most likely the problem is somewhere else, then. On 32-bit machines the limit is around 4 billion bytes' worth of lines (or less if your computer has less memory). I'd guess your input files were not sorted. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
