James Youngman wrote: > On Feb 17, 2008 12:16 AM, Pádraig Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> James Youngman wrote: >>> + join now has a --check-order option which causes join to verify that >>> + the input files are indeed sorted. The option --nocheck-sorted >>> + turns the check off (the check is currently off by default). >> I'm not sure it's worth adding this option. >> If you know to use it, then you already know the input should be sorted? >> what am I missing? > > My original intent was to make it the default, but it turns out that > the coreutils manual documents a "GNU extension" allowing the input > not to be sorted, as long as identical join fields are presented on > each line.
That condition can be easily checked for right? So you print the warning if you detect unsorted input, and the above condition is not true. Also I can't think of any other reason you would input unsorted keys into `join`, so it would be great if we could add this functionality with no options at all. Pádraig. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
