" Important: FILE1 and FILE2 must be sorted on the join fields."
There is only words above in the manual. it should mention the sort method
at least. I strongly suggest improve the join maunal in the latter
distribution.
Thanks
Michael
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From: "Paul Eggert" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2012 11:14 PM
To: "Michael" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: bug#12659: the join command bug report!
On 10/17/2012 12:19 AM, Michael wrote:
# sort -n file1 > file3
# sort -n file2 > file4
# join file3 file4
That won't work. You have to join with the same
sorting order that you sorted with. This is discussed
in the manual.
