[Bug-textutils] Tr: join bug

[Jean-Jacques BERNARD]

Hi

 

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De : Jean-Jacques BERNARD

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Envoyé : lundi 11 septembre 2000 15:32

Objet : join bug

Hi,

 

There is a bug in join. I've been trying various kind of machines (LINUX, SUN, MAC) and I still have the same behavior.

 

You need 2 sorted files with 3 tab separated fields.

 

The command line is :  join -t"    " -a 1 -j1 1 -j2 1 -o 2.3 1.2 1.3 file1 file2

(the separator with -t is tab)

you got an output file with a lack of the first field for all the -a 1 lines.

 

If then you try : join -t"    " -a 1 -j1 1 -j2 1 -o 2.3 1.1 1.2 1.3 file1 file2

you recover your -a 1 lines but with an empty field for the first one. That is it try continue to follow the -o option !!!!!!!!

 

Anyway, I've been trying this last version (and making the correction after with the output and another tool) with a 330Mo bytes file for the first and a 6.5 Mo the second, but it gives me a 'memory exhausted' error message. My maximum length for a line is 145 char long.

 

hop it will be sufficient for you.

 

Bye.

 

 

 

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