Zhang Weiwu wrote: > Dear all > > I am learning to use join to manage data processing easier. I got two > data files, they should join on field No. 9. > > But such simple join doesn't work. The output of join is 0 bytes. Feel > surprised I size down both file size to contain only two records. Still > fail. > > $ join -t $'\t' -j 8 a b > [no output] > > Expect: > [output 2 rows] > > I attached my two test case, hope someone can guide me through this. It > maybe very simple case but I had scratched my head half an hour now. >
Looks like I simply didn't properly format the data, there perhaps are un-necessary trailing spaces at the end of certain fields. Should be my fault. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
