hi 2007-05-01
I very thank you for reply :) > Please keep replies on the list, so that others may chime in with > solutions, and so that others may reference the archives for the answers > you are given. sorry for that, i just "man join" and found this email, so I wrote as fast I can and forgot about list > If you use bash, there are non-portable extensions such as: > join -options... <(sort -options... file1) <(sort -options... file2) > that make it very easy to sort two files then join the results using > process substitution. > But even sticking to portable tools, you can always use temporary files, > or perhaps this is an instance where an awk script is the way to go. I will try this solution with redirection (< if I correct understand you)... I can't (don't want to) use temporary files - not in this case... AWK is great! but it's to hard for me and I have no time to lern it right now.... btw. sorry for wasting your precious time and thank you one more time! :) -- p: OBLus GG: 3390131 [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
