Philip Clayton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The last command works using join 4.5.3.
To get the old fashioned behavior, you can set _POSIX2_VERSION=199209
in your environment. However, POSIX no longer requires support for
that behavior, so you might also consider updating your scripts to use
the "modern" (i.e., standardized-in-1992) syntax.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] test]$ join -o 1.2 2.2 file1 file2
> join: too many non-option arguments
The space has to be within the option-argument following "-o". E.g.,
join -o '1.2 2.2' file1 file2
To help clarify this I installed the following patch:
2004-12-11 Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* coreutils.texi (join invocation): Mention that blank separators
in the -o option need to be quoted. Problem reported by Phil Clayton.
--- coreutils.texi.~1.232.~ 2004-12-10 16:05:37 -0800
+++ coreutils.texi 2004-12-11 23:18:21 -0800
@@ -4725,6 +4725,10 @@ field specification notation.
The elements in @var{field-list}
are separated by commas or blanks.
+Blank separators typically need to be quoted for the shell. For
+example, the commands @samp{join -o 1.2,2.2} and @samp{join -o '1.2
+2.2'} are equivalent.
+
All output lines---including those printed because of any -a or -v
option---are subject to the specified @var{field-list}.
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