unarchive 6366 stop On 08/22/2012 09:17 PM, Sam Steingold wrote: > Hi, > I have a file of numbers (integers IDs) which are sorted numerically, > but comm complains that they are not. > I suggest that comm accept "-n" option (like sort) to use numeric sort. > Thanks.
Yes. comm, join, uniq really should support the same field selection and comparision flags as sort. There are already bugs for that: http://bugs.gnu.org/5832 http://bugs.gnu.org/6366 For reference, the following examples show expected an unexpected behavior respectively: $ comm --nocheck <(printf "%s\n" a b c j k) <(printf "%s\n" a b d e j) a b c d e j k $ comm --nocheck <(printf "%s\n" 1 2 3 10 11) <(printf "%s\n" 1 2 5 6 10) 1 2 3 10 11 5 6 10 cheers, Pádraig.
