Re: bug in join command

[Pádraig Brady]

Eric Blake wrote:
> According to Eric Blake on 2/26/2009 6:12 AM:
>> According to Laurent Manchon on 2/25/2009 1:20 PM:
>>> -- Hi,
>>> with the files i send you in attachment(files.zip).
>> It's likely that your files aren't properly sorted.  While I didn't
>> validate your attachments,
> 
> Actually, I couldn't have validated them.  Your mentioned .zip attachment
> was not actually present; either you missed sending it, or the mail server
> stripped it off.  It is safe to send .gz, .bz2, or even .xz attachments,
> but .zip tends to be used in propagating viruses, so I won't guarantee
> whether it can make it through unscathed.


Laurent should have replied to the list
that he had found his issue.

"okay the problem is over,
i have found my error: join command need to have files with a common field
sorted with alphanumerical order and not numerical order (sort -n)."


Pádraig.