Re: join -v incorrectly lists items which are in the joined set

[Bob Proulx]

address@hidden wrote:
> Summary:          join -v incorrectly lists items which are in the joined 
> set
> Product Name:     gnu text utilities - join command
> Product Version:  join (GNU textutilites) 2.0
> OS Name:          MS Windows XP Professional
> OS Version:       5.1.2600 Service Pack 1 build 2600
> Found Date:       2005-Jul-06 (reported 2005-Jul-11)
> Found By:         Paul Stachour
> Finder Phone:     952-995-9395
> Finder Email:     address@hidden
> Report Version:   1.0
> Reported to:      address@hidden

Wow.  What tool did you use to create that bug report?

Thanks for the report.  Bug reports are always welcome.  Except that I
read your report very carefully and could not quite figure out what it
was that you thought was the problem.  Could you provide a little more
information?

> Details:
>   In the attached files, join -v incorrectly lists items in the joined 
> set.

What was the exact command you used?  Because join -v takes an
argument filenumber, either 1 or 2, to suppress the output.

> I was creating a bash shell-script to calculate the maturity level
> of a set of requirements.  I used the requirements tool to create a
> list of item-names (first column of the file) and item-versions (2nd 
> column).

> However, when I run the join command, either directly or from the
> bash script, in DOS, it shows 23 differences.

Your input files were not sorted.  You must have sorted input to
join.  Sort the files and I am guessing your problem will go away.

Textutils version 2.0 is truly ancient these days.  The new package
which contains join is called coreutils.

> Attachments:
>   join.exe (as zip-file)

Please don't send the executable in future reports.  It won't run on
our systems and it makes the mail message very large.  Specifying the
version of the program is better.

  join --version

Bob