URL:
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Summary: join stops on numeric field if last number before
double-digit is missing
Project: GNU Core Utilities
Submitted by: None
Submitted on: Wednesday 09/26/2007 at 18:52 UTC
Category: None
Severity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: None
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
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Details:
tested with coreutils-5.2.1-31.4 on RHEL4, coreutils-5.97-12.1.el5 on RHEL5
Looks likes join terminates when joining on a numeric field if the last
n-digit number before the n+1-digit number is missing, e.g. I have 2 sorted
files with numbers 1-2000 (and then some data in other fiels). If in one file
the line with "999 some data" is missing, the join output will stop at the
line before. If instead the "998 some other data" line is missing, join's
output continues as expected.
# cat a (sequence)
7
8
9
10
11
12
# cat b (sequence with 9 missing)
7
8
10
11
12
# cat c (sequence with 8 missing)
7
9
10
11
12
# join a b
7
8
<--- where's the rest?
# join a c
7
9
10
11
12
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