Re: join ?

[Andreas Schwab]

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> I have the following question about the join command. I thought join would 
> merge the columns of different files when the same index or value is 
> present in the specified columns.

The input must be sorted on the join filed.

> For example, I created the following files:
> echo 84 150 | gawk '{for (i=$1;i<=$2;i++) printf "%i %s\n", i,"A"}' > 

$ echo 84 150 | gawk '{for (i=$1;i<=$2;i++) printf "%i %s\n", i,"A"}' | sort -c 
-k 1b,1
sort: -:17: disorder: 100 A

Andreas.

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